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Jan 11 2013, 09:42 PM
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- Jan 11 2013, 05:20 PM
- sudo
- Jan 11 2013, 11:41 AM
- cisslybee2012
- Jan 11 2013, 03:42 AM
- sudo
- Jan 11 2013, 03:31 AM
I think it's mutations in humans that cause most new infections viruses and diseases. I don't have a good link to how these things mutate, but you can find enough information on it online. There's also the fact that these things do evolve as and/or with humans.
I didn't say that no infections from animals reached humans, just that most don't. Avian bird flu is a high-profile case, but that's not the rule. It is an example of how one might create an infection though; by allowing infected animals to live together for a prolonged time so that the virus has a chance to mutate to the point to where it's resilient.
Likewise, I've never seen anything that proved the origin of venereal disease to people having sex with animals. I don't even know if we have a way to prove it at this point. It could've simply been a case of a person who's sexual hygiene was lacking having sex with another, particularly if the other person was from another region. This is just a guess, but centuries ago with their being less intercontinental travel and no immunization I could easily see infections being much more lethal when travelers visited new regions and brought infections their bodies had built immunities to new hosts. This happened to the Native Americans when Columbus landed on this continent; both the Native Americans and Columbus and his crew got illnesses from one another. A lot of diseases we have cures for now like hepatitis, smallpox, and syphilis got transmitted between the groups which killed many.
If it's mutations, then something has to be causing it. The mutations, if that's the case, isn't just coming from out of nowhere. And poisoning masses of people is an age old tactic. I could be wrong about AIDS sudo, but at this point, I don't think I am.
There's basically two ways mutations occur - through outside influences like radiation, and through "mistakes" (for lack of a better word) in cell division. So it's true that mutations can be caused purposely, but it's more common that it occurs inadvertently.
I hear ya. But AIDS has nothing to do with any mutation as far as I can see. And if it does, Then the mutation was deliberate. As I said before, mutations can occur through simple mistakes in cellular division, a process that happens in living beings automatically. There's no need for intervention as it happens naturally. And yes, there are naturally-occurring mutations in HIV and AIDS,which cause new strains that are resistant to current treatment typically.
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