It looks to me like the HIV thing is nothing. I'm still keeping an open mind on the issue. My training, and working with WMD experts in Iraq, still gives me a gut feeling that this wasn't natural..
From all the reading I'm seeing, this thing doesn't act like a normal Corona Virus, where generally people have to be symptomatic in order to be contagious.
HIV, on the other hand, CAN be contagious during a long incubation period, taking the slow path to forcing a immune response from viral shedding.
I, also, have have a hard time understanding, with all the research on various bat species and the viruses they harbor, how this virus could have survived in a Bat.. From my reading, the reason they believe Bats are generally immune to the viruses they carry is do to a high metabolism that raises their body temperature during flight, and keeps their viruses in check..
And Bats don't carry HIV, from what I can discern.. So why are they carrying a Virus that acts like HIV?
Which would suggest, IMO, that the viruses they carry would have an evolutionary tendency to wan to mass reproduce during any potential environmental window (Bat's being dormant for longer than normal)..
Their body temp variability, in my logic, would be extremely hostile to a virus that is trying to avoid an immune response..
I don't know.. but that's my gut on it.. I'm probably incorrect, but I'll await further peer-reviewed conclusions that have been thoroughly vetted..
Hawk |
