Airborne HIV

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1. Approximately 1 in 300 people are immune to HIV infection (i.e. there immune system can fight it off).
2. There are drugs that can cure HIV infection if taken for 3 months continuosly within 48 hours of HIV infection.
3 A new study this week has shown that Truvada (or its generic equivalent at 4p a dose) gives 78% protection against HIV if taken continuously.
4 People with HIV can have the infection controlled with drugs much like diabetics, and certainly in the West have a life expectancy approaching those of none HIV+ people.

People please stop scaremongering:mad:, civilisation will not end and learn some facts about HIV.

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You do realize anything airborne is highly dangerous, right? That the West is pretty much the only people who can do this?

And that HIV is a hyper-evolving virus, and that if it became airborne, its a brand new strain?
 
The rather scary part is that it's a number of months after HIV infection that the symptoms of AIDS appear. So it could get passed around during flu season for quite some time before anyone noticed.
Anyway, Congress or the President or whoever would immediately nullify any and all patents on antiretrovirals and the like, as would their counterparts around the world. Many countries implement some sort of quarantine system. The number of dead would be awful, but not civilization ending.

Fortunately, it would be quite difficult to spread HIV in an airborne way, so sleep tight.
 
What kind of religious reaction specifically? Certainly nobody would object to a full effort to defeat a disease that is transmitted through not fault or action of the recipient except breathing.

I may be going a bit too far on this, but my first thought was that millions of people would think "Last plagues! End times!" and act accordingly.
 
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