Originally Posted by
Linkzelda41
No, I'm saying that another industry should be in charge of regulations without the outrageous costs to test them, especially if a professor can do it with a teacher's salary...
We will never be close to eradicating HIV, at least not in this generation or even the next. The reason why it's so much of a challenge in the first place is because it does the opposite from the typical DNA-->RNA process, which means that it is prone to make mistakes, which means there can be more mutations. What may be the key to almost eradicating it maybe become useless once there is a mutation that can resist it. Until HIV (the components of what makes its composition) turns into a perfectionist, and by that I mean not making any mistakes to cause mutations, it's going to be a constant tackle in eradicating HIV.
It isn't something you can just "cure" with a one quick fix miracle. Eventually, these "cures" will die out because they aren't enough to tackle the mutations. And these multiple fatal diseases are nothing compared to more that will become apparent in the future. The more you delay regulations because of extreme and outrageous price ranges, the more the virus is going to be harder to fix because it will continue to mutate, and unless you have something that can mutate along with it and keep up (Bacteriophages is the key here), seeing major diseases destroyed is idealism.
As much as what the textbook and media gives you about finding all these "cures" and solutions, they are only temporary. Everyone is going to be happy until something happens and the disease fucks up the effectiveness. Small pox, sure, that's pretty much gone, but HIV is different.
If you can find a way to stop the reverse process (you can only delay it for a while, but not completely because by then the strand is already in the genetic makeup, and once it's there...hope you can live long enough for it).
And even there's a solution to destroy the cells, it's already embedded to the human cells that it would be rocket science to find a way compel your body to think it's not some other virus trying to kill the virus that it thinks is a part of it.
And like I said, bacteriophages do not affect humans in any way. They are one of the prime examples of something that can mutate (medicine and vaccines cannot mutate, therefore it's perfect for bacteriophages to be used instead of these temporary cures these "chemists" are making.
