Wednesday, March 2, 2016

HIV Drug Resistance Becoming “Disturbingly Common”


On the down side, we are surrounded by Apocalypse. On the upside, the Apocalypse can’t get away from us now:
The research, co-authored by researchers at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, studied 1,926 HIV patients across the world with uncontrolled HIV despite being prescribed antiretrovirals. They found tenofovir-resistant strains in 60% of patients in sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to 20% amongst patients treated in Europe. Around two-thirds of patients with tenofovir-resistant strains had also become resistant to both other drugs in their regimen, indicating that their treatment had been completely compromised.
“Around two-thirds of patients with tenofovir-resistant strains… their treatment had been completely compromised”

That is big news. When you only have a couple of viral particles produced here and there, mutation comes slowly. When the viral load increases to what it might have been with no treatment, mutations are coming fast and furious, and all of them are being culled for the fastest movers and the most effective resistance. This will get worse, faster and faster.
Africa often gets hand-me-down drugs, near expiration or even past expiration. I even read somewhere that they send all of the leftover flu vaccine each year over there, and give it to the Africans even if the vaccine is expired, the season is over, and the next season’s strain will be totally different. They said in the article it was believed to be better than wasting the vaccine. I got the impression disposal of expired vaccines requires some arduous and costly highly regulated process, so they just send it to Africa to put it in people to get rid of it in the least regulated and costly way possible. That, or some lefty non-profit is spiking it with sterilizing antigens.
Combined with the distribution issues described, the distrust of foreigners who are sometimes giving adulterated products, and the heat and humidity weakening the drugs which are delivered successfully, you can see how you would encourage resistance. If the rabbits hold to form, they will soon try to increase the drive to import the gays from these areas.
Of course the unspoken problem is amygdala deficiency. AIDS is selectively infecting those with deficient amygdalae. Those with deficient amygdalae lack the cognitive force in their brain to drive strict adherence to an unpleasant cocktail of drugs. This means AIDS will tend to end up resistant, no matter how effective current treatment is, and it will happen wherever AIDS arises.
Where it gets interesting in the US is in cases like Charlie Sheen. Charlie so savaged his amygdala function with drugs that he reportedly developed a need for pre-op transsexual prostitutes, which is presumably where he acquired his HIV infection. If there was anyone who would spread HIV to every high-end escort in the nation, from coast to coast, it was Charlie. But I am sure Charlie is not alone in that regard, among the ultra-rich, extra-hedonistic, and totally amygdala-deadened. Now we see some speculation online that Clinton’s health problem’s could be HIV-related, as Al Sharpton begins to exhibit a tremendous weight loss.
If drug resistance does become widespread in the gay community, it will become a problem for all rabbits, but especially the ones who travel in highly rabbitized circles. Given the rabbitization in Washington, you would think the idiots in DC would have the highest rates. Not surprisingly, according to the CDC:
People in the American South “are more likely to be diagnosed with HIV over the course of their lifetime than other Americans, with the highest risk in Washington, DC (1 in 13), Maryland (1 in 49), Georgia (1 in 51), Florida (1 in 54), and Louisiana (1 in 56),” said the new infographic.
When K comes, it comes in force. The horsemen travel together, work as a team, and they prefer to savage r-strategists.
We should throw them a welcome party.

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