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Written by chImp at 03 Jun 2003 23:55:20: Re: Brief Summary 1
As an answer to: Re: Brief Summary written by Ivan at 03 Jun 2003 18:38:42:
This e-mail was a bit long, so I'm gonna split it into pieces and answer each piece one by one.
Yes, Duesheim originally came up with the idea quite some time ago, and as of 1998 he still held on to it. I do not think either one of us is able to dig out an article that explains exactly HOW the presens of the HIV virus destroys most of the T-cells, when it is never abundant at any stage of a HIV-infected person's life! In all other diseases, when a virus destroys cells, it is abundant in the particular region they destroy!
And this topic is NOT a trite questions to the researchers, when they have to come up with additional concepts such as "cofactors".
>>* AIDS was discovered 19 years ago. To this day we don't have a clue exactly HOW HIV kills T-cells.
>I doubt this. As 28/F points out, the article is a decade old, and this is the sort of objection often tossed off irresponsibly when there are in fact good descriptions but no articles on the precise topic because it is such a trite question to the researchers