Gene Therapy Approach 'Completely' Protects Mice From HIV Infection

It can't be cited other than by checking every single scientific study in all of history and seeing that nonw of them proof that ADIS is caused by HIV.

it can be trivially disproved by showing the proof of course.

For that we basically have Koch's Postulates.

1. The germ must be found in every host with the disease
There have been cases of of AIDS like symptoms without HIV:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8093633 [nih.gov]

They are very rare though, and just because something that isn't influenza can cause flu like symptoms doesn't mean influenza doesn't cause the flu.

Essentially everyone with AIDS tests positive for HIV, and >99% of people without AIDS test negative for HIV.

2. The germ must be isolated from the host and grown in pure culture
This is done routinely .

3. The germ must cause the disease when introduced into a susceptible healthy host.
4. The germ must be re-isolated from the infected host

Ethics prevent us from doing these steps for things we think will kill you.

However, there have been a few lab accidents in which workers have been infected with HIV (cultured HIV, not just say blood from an AIDS patient getting into their bloodstream, which would carry more than just HIV). All of them showed T-cell depletion. And HIV was then isolated from them and matched the one they had been infected with exactly.

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102203749.html [nih.gov]

Plus the dozens of health care workers who have contracted AIDS from mistakes with HIV+ blood/etc - clearly not as good as isolated HIV infection for showing it is HIV, but more volume.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/N0BQIAslyYU/gene-therapy-approach-completely-protects-mice-from-hiv-infection

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