i'm looking for the part about the earth being flat in kramski's statement, maybe some praise of asbestos. dumb people convinced they're right and on a mission to enlighten the rest of the world need to have their vocal chords cut out.

jrv---ever consider running aim?? if you're not at least peripherally involved with the medical field, do you know everything? i only know anything from looking through my older sister's stuff from med school like beavis, so i know my siamese twins, that "micropenis" is real and very funny, and scary viruses.

hiv, except in the case jrv described, is almost always terminal, maybe a boring fungus kills you, probably some kind of lymphoma in your chest or brain that doesn't respond to treatment. just because after the intitial infection, you might not have much evidence of the virus and seem healthy just means that retroviruses have a proportionally tiny lytic cycle to lysogenic versus colds, rabies, etc. that means once it's made your immune system leave it alone, it chugs along with its reverse transcription, provirus synthesis, and cellular integration, leaving you with different dna.
the reverse transcription part is what means azt and the newer protease inhibitor, while effective at keeping it in check, even from being transferred if you give birth sometimes, your dna sucks for stopping normally harmless stuff from killing you. vaccines can't come from active or inactive HIV because it's so pathogenic, and we're probably a ways from something synthetic and harmless.

at some point, possibly much later, things wear down or a new lytic cycle(cells full of the virus rupturing) happens, your lymphatic system isn't coded right, so now it might be termed aids. as mentioned when your cd4's are gone to a certain count or you can't fight off opportunistic shit like kaposi's sarcoma, thrush, mycobacteria, and i think the big one is pnemonia.