How does natural selection affect our ability to develop cures for AIDS?

Answer 1

The guy that screwed the monkey, that started this whole thing made it hard to combat this virus because it keeps changing . It wasn't a normal human virus. and natural selection doesn't matter when it's spread to all levels of society. the only thing we know is if you have a lot money you stand a better chance of living as you can afford the medications to keep you going. and if thats natural selection by pocket book, Then the problem is lower income people tend to get it more often and die quicker.

Answer 2

(( to the girl above me, wow, you talk about education, and you make grammar mistakes that are that obvious...)) Anyway, Darwin's thoery of evolution due to natural selection is a little more complicated that you may think. Not only does it take many many generations, it would also take millions of dollars to speed it up, to confine/kill/get rid of all those people. Not to mention that even if you do confine them, what do you plan to do, starve them? Shoot them? Honestly, if you really thought this was such a great idea, why did you ask on yahoo? It sounds like you just learned about Darwin in your Biology class or something and think you can save the world! Well sorry to disapoint you, but unless you would like to pay for all this i doubt the govermant will. The U.S. is already $3 trillion in dept and even though a cure to AIDS is very important, the government doesn't care enough. And yes, cats may have adapted to their disease, but HIV/AIDS virus evolves faster than you will ever imagine. Many people have to take multiple pills just to counter it, but the immune cells remain, and then they have to find a new medicine. There are only like 13 possible drugs on the market, and many of them have stopped working for many people. So, i ask you, if you had AIDS, and you have a wife who doesn't, and you both want a baby, what would you want. WOuld you want to be quarentined and killed? Would you risk giving your baby HIV? Or your wife? YOu may think your plan is brilliant, but in the end, billions of people who had no say in getting the virus, like african woman who were raped, are killed. Maybe people like you should be quarentined too. Think before you speak.

Answer 3

It makes it very difficult to develop cures, because the HIV virus multiplies very rapidly, but often makes mistakes in multiplication, resulting in mutations. Some of these mutations help the virus to resist the effects of medications. Therefore, when we administer a drug, those mutants that have developed some kind of resistance survive, and they start to multiply, so the drug is no longer effective. This is why treatment for HIV often includes multiple drugs, because HIV may become resistant to a single drug quickly.

Answer 4

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