HIV Is Evolving To Evade Human Immune Responses

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Question: How high must the temperature of blood be before the HIVirus dies in the bloodstream.

Wouldn't it be possible to induce a high enough fever to kill the virus but not so high as to damage the blood cells, but cool down the brain to prevent a stroke.

That would be 49 degrees and this is also the level where mortality steps in for the human body.

The prevalent factor of the mutating HIV virus is the re-infection of HIV positive people and the main reason behind this is the fact that they do not know their status and where the status is known; they refuse to accept that they are HIV positive.

HIV; and they said there is no cure for stupidity!

 

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I am proposing brain transplants, because we don't want the virus to be exposed to more infectable blood.

hang on, brain transplants? you cannot reattach the nerves (yet)

it might be a few years, decades or more before they find a way to do that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_transplant

One of the most significant barriers to the procedure is the inability of nerve tissue to heal properly; scarred nerve tissue does not transmit signals well (this is the reason a spinal cord injury is so devastating).

There is also a potential problem of the new interface at the spinal cord, in that even if all the nerves are connected successfully, they may not transmit the same information as the same nerve connection in the old body. For example, a nerve that used to control the right index finger's muscle group might be connected to a different finger's muscle group, or another body part entirely.