Genetic HIV Resistance?
Answers: Yes its true some people are "immune" to HIV. It is not so much immune though, as that they lack the receptors on their T-cells for the virus to attach to.
There are prostitutes contained by Africa that come into contact with this virus everyday, but still never become infected. So they were researched, and it be found that they had a mutation on their DNA which made their T-cells not have the correct receptors.
When they enjoy sex, they do get the virus, however, the virus cannot infect them, reproduce, and thus cannot cause any mar.
Just because they can't get HIV, doesn't mean they can't capture other illnesses. All viruses have their own characteristic receptor that they attach to and bacteria can invade as well. And confusion is actually not caused by any diseases or infections, it is the body's immune response to an infection (there is a reliable WBC that causes fever and inflammation.
The crazy article too is that because this is a DNA mutation, it is possible to pass this flawed gene on to their offspring, and thus them also anyone immune.
It is like sickle cell. With sickle cell, your RBCs are irregularly shaped and thus the malaria parasite cannot infect it, and thus those people are "immune" to malaria. And it can be passed to their children.
it is true that enduring people have a Haplotype that make them resistant to HIV infection, but these people still get other illnesses since they merely have a genetic mutation that prevents HIV from infecting CD4 molecules. Yes there are positive receptors that very few people paucity and they can't developHIV? AIDS. This is not a common genetic mutation.
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