AIDS Is Growing Drug Resisitant

A K-stimulus all its own:

The latest statistics came out this week in two reports, one by the United Nations AIDS agency, the other by the World Health Organization.

Here’s the epidemic today, by the numbers:

36.7 million – The number of people with HIV worldwide. This figure is up from 36.1 million in 2015…

19.5 million – The number of people on anti-retroviral drugs used to suppress the HIV virus. The figure, up from 17.1 million in 2015, represents 53% of those infected…

1.8 million – The number of new HIV infections last year… One big factor driving new infections: People ages 15 to 24 are lagging behind the rest of the population when it comes to knowledge of HIV and testing, treatment and prevention. In addition, men are less likely than women to know their HIV status or start treatment.

6 – The number of countries — of the 10 that were part of a study on resistance in Africa, Asia and Latin America — in which more than 10% of people starting antiretroviral therapies have HIV strains that are resistant to the most widely use medicines.

135,000 – The number of additional AIDS-related deaths the world would see over the next five years if no progress is made against curbing drug resistance. Unchecked resistance would also lead to additional 105,000 infections, because when treatment fails to suppress the virus, the patient is more likely to infect other people.

HIV is cooking, behind the scenes. The Cuban super strain that turns to full blown AIDS in weeks will make its way into the first world. Resistance genes are meeting with drugs weakened by heat, humidity, and irregular dosing in places like Africa, and they are adapting.

Still as a retrovirus, it mutates so fast the strain which kills someone has often mutated through several different strains itself in the human host, as it searched for the most viable form to take down that specific human host. Finding a cure is like hitting a moving target, while blindfolded, and it is always moving against any drug therapies you already have.

If it ever finds a way to come back, it will be a serious impediment to long form DRD-4 alleles. But even if it weren’t to ever come back, there are plenty of other pathogens working to fill that role:

A gonorrhea epidemic has hit Oregon amid public health concerns that the disease is becoming immune to standard treatment.

Since 2012, cases have nearly tripled statewide, affecting just about every part of Oregon, including rural counties where infections have been traditionally low.

Officials in some counties have become so concerned that they’ve launched public awareness campaigns, with ads on dating sites, Facebook and Google. In others, specialists have gone door-to-door, trying to track down infected people and their partners to get them treated.

And thanks to the leftist migration-lovers, that is just the tip of the iceberg:

U.S. and German citizens are put at significant risk by the politically correct acceptance of unscreened immigrants from countries with a high prevalence of infectious diseases, many difficult or impossible to treat. Yet authorities in both countries have failed to fully inform the public of the dangers.

According to the July 2017 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report by the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany has seen a surge in chicken pox, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles, malaria, meningococcal diseases, hemorrhagic fevers, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis, typhus, toxoplasmosis, tularemia, trichinellosis, whooping cough, and many fungal and parasitic infections. Here are a few striking examples:

Measles is up more than 450 percent. Hepatitis B is up 300 percent. Scabies escalated nearly 3,000 percent. HIV/AIDS increased 30 percent. Tuberculosis (TB) is at least 30 percent higher – but German and U.S. physicians suspect that the incidence of TB is actually far higher than reported, and is being downplayed to avoid causing public outrage over the influx of immigrants. In Germany, more than 40 percent of TB cases are multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB).Dengue fever is up over 25 percent just from 2014.

A similar pattern has emerged in the U.S. since the massive increase in illegal border crossers and refugees beginning in 2010.

I look at that list, picturing what it will do to the left in our nations, and all I can think is what a beautiful cornucopia of death and mayhem.

Sometimes it seems that no matter what the future looks like, there is no end to the complex mechanisms engineered into the world to foster the growth and ascendance of the K-strategy. And most ironically of all, perhaps the biggest mechanism fostering K is the r-strategists themselves. Without their tireless efforts on so many fronts, I am not sure we would ever go K.

Spread r/K Theory, because there is a whole lot of death coming our way