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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/15843_AIDS.html

Every forth Russian resistant to AIDS thanks to mutant gene

07/22/2005 11:15

Up to 1.5 percent of Russians have two mutant genes CKR-5 i.e. they are fully protected from HIV For many years researchers in Saint Petersburg have been trying to understand why AIDS pandemic was not spreading through Russia's reckless population as fast as it was in other countries. The researchers arrived at sensational conclusions during their study. The study involved 700 residents of Russian Federation including Russians, Tartars, Uzbeks, Azeris, Kazakhs and Georgians. It was conducted at the Ott Prenatal Diagnostics Laboratory by a team of researchers headed by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Baranov. The researchers come to the shocking conclusion: Russia's residents are genetically resistant to HIV. Russians and Tartars happened to have the highest levels of resistance. Nature endowed every fourth Russian and every forth Tartar with a gene that underwent mutation. The mutant gene ensures relative resistance to HIV. From 1% to 1.5% of our compatriots have two mutant genes CKR-5 i.e. they are fully protected from HIV. Researchers from other countries showed interest in the study. As it turned out, the percentage of people with the mutant gene depends on nationality. Poland is a nation with the highest percentage of residents resistant to AIDS. From 26% to 27% percent of the Poles have the mutant gene protecting them against AIDS. The figures for England are 22%. Going East means a sharp drop in the number of the lucky ones. Only two or three percent of the Turks are resistant to AIDS. The Japanese are totally devoid of the mutant gene. The same applies to the people of the Negro race regardless of the country of origin. The first studies of a genetically inherited predisposition of some people for AIDS were conducted by the Americans a few years ago. Researchers at the National Center for Cancer Studies wanted to know why some drug addicts and other people with a higher risk of infection never become HIV-positive. They found out that the genes in the bodies of some people kept the disease at bay. In other words, a single mutation of the gene CKR-5 did the trick. A mutant gene strengthens the lymphocytes and eventually makes the body relatively resistant to HIV. However, it does not mean that the bearer of the gene is fully protected against the deadly virus. Only a handful of people have two identical mutations of the CKR-5. Such people are completely immune to AIDS.

Pravda. . .

The Russian version of The National Enquiror. (although Pavda in Russian means truth I believe)

What's with the thread title??!!

Fucking Bush.

:mad:

you know you like it

So from now on if we post something with "naughty" words in the thread titles, it gives us that colored line? We can't even tell what the thread is about....so someone could post "Free Fucking Porn for All" and it will be crossed out, and people will go into the thread wondering what the thread is about.

No.. I just made the thread title this way. There was nothing to do with any words in the title.

Uh, you sure that's the case? Shorty, what is the thread title?

You should be banninated.

A bunch of black bars, whaddya think it is?

You should be burninated

Oh, apparently I am the stupid everyone is with.

I thought a few days ago someone requested that all the bad words in thread titles be censored, and I thought this was a new beginning to that rule.

I find no mention of this study on CNN's website, so Im gonna go with not believing it

You should be bilbobated.



Alright, I quit.

hxxp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9493032&dopt=Abstract

Seems to imply there's at least some basis in fact.

Nice. I likey.

Cool title, Shorty. Thumbs up!

I feel like I am having an acid flashback here. For one, the color keeps changing in the title. And even if the point of the post was to have a wierd color title, what is the deal with the AIDS link?

hey if that's true that would be an awesome step towards erradicating AIDS

Changing colors? Are you still on acid?

Well, back in the day, it was the propaganda machine over there. But now it's been reduced to a tabloid for the most part. The scary thing is that it's still one of the best English-language news sites out there for international news.

SI

There's a Tartar sauce joke in there somewhere...

This is old news. PBS aired this in a special a long time ago, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/clues.html. Turns out that if you were immune to the black death you are also immune to HIV. This is why more european's are immune than other races.