[smallpoxgirl]

Even if it could be done, one of the things antibodies do is stimulate macrophages to initiate phagocytosis. You'd get macrophages gobbling up all your helper T cells, which would not improve the situation. Also there's every likelihood that whatever receptor HIV is grabbing hold of also serves some other function for the T-cell. Who knows what blocking it would do.

[Aaron]

Keychain scorchers.

[TITAN]

They should try reverse-psychology on AIDS. Instead of trying to beat it; make it stronger...

It's worth a try...

[FreakOil]

While undergoing a medical examination to obtain visa and permit to work in China, I was handed a questionaire about AIDS awareness. Some of the questions are hilarious, and I just had to share it with you since Peakoil.com is the only Internet forum in which I participate. Some of it's just Chinglish, but there's a few gems:

Part I: Fundamental Information

Your sexuality is:
a. male
b. female

Your culture degree is:
a. illiteracy
b. elementary school
c. junior middle school
d. senior middle or vocational secondary school
e. college or undergraduate
f. post-graduate and above

Works tired?
a. yes
b. no

Part II: The Understanding Situation of Health Knowledge

What is the abbreviation of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
a. AIDS
b. ADIS
c. ALDS
d. ADLS
e. I do not know

Do you think AIDS will become the great killer of makind?
a. It certainly is.
b. It should be.
c. I don't know.

How much do you know about AIDS?
a. To be above suspicion, and use condom while having sexual intercourse with others.
b. Do not use the razor or toothbrush in common.
c. If the instruments have not undergone pasteurization, do not use it to make holes on ears or stripe eyebrow.
d. Do not use the syringe in common.
e. To use the disinfectant syringes and instruments while having a medical treatment.
f. To use the qualified blood which have the antibody examination of AIDS virus while receiving blood transfusion.
g. To have preoperative examination while having a surgical operation, and reserve the related data.

How do you receive the AIDS-related knowledge?
a. Broadcast
b. Television
c. Newspapers and magazines
d. Friends or colleagues
e. network
f. others

Part III: Behavior

On these last 6 months, how many prostitutes you sexual intercourse with?

(There are six questions related to prostitutes. This should tell you something about China and Asia in general.)

If you infected HIV by accident, what action are you going to take?
a. To search actively for treatment and adjust psychosomatic condition.
b. To notify friends and relatives contacted usually, and try to avoid transmitting to others.
c. Since I will die, I transmit HIV virus everywhere.
d. To forget this, and live happily for the rest of my stay.
e. Do nothing, live as usual.
f. I don't know, it depends on the specific circumstances.

About AIDS, what information would you like to know?
a. The newest news about AIDS
b. The measure preventing AIDS
c. Various kinds of treatment for AIDS
d. HIV-related knowledge
e. The existence status of cases of AIDS virus infection
f. AIDS-related events
g. Other

What do you wanna do when an AIDS patient is at your side?
a. I ask him to leave at once. Otherwise, it is easy to transmit HIV to those around him.
b. To keep apart, and try not to contact him. If I got in contact with him, in order to avoid being infected by cleansing or sterilizing at once.
c. I'll treat him as he is a average person, because of casual contact usually does not transmit disease.
d. AIDS is unfortunate, and we should concern and take good care of them.
e. I can't be sure how I'll do unto him.

Part IV: Attitude

It is favorable to control the transmission of HIV if condom is popularized in people.
a. I couldn't agree more.
b. I agree.
c. I can't say for certain.
d. I disagree.
e. I disagree extremely.

Questionnaire of heard-disease knowledge of exit entry

The understanding situation of health knowledge

Do you drink?
a. yes
b. no

If yes, what kind of liquor?
a. bear
b. red wine
c. other

Have you had before?
a. yes
b. no

That's the end of the survey. Thanks very much for your taking up much time to answer these questions. Thank you for your help!

[TheTurtle]

Yes ... always amusing.

To be fair, were I to attempt to write such a questionnaire in Chinese, I am certain that the result would be equally laughable.

[katkinkate]

I wonder how they will analyse those results?

[FreakOil]

I don't think there will be many results to analyze. I can't imagine too many foreigners voluntarily answering a questionnaire that's five pages long and filled with absurd questions. Some of the questions are simply unanswerable.

And there's English like this all over China. I've heard that the Bank of China in Lhasa, Tibet, has posted a sign - in order to direct foreigners to the information desk - that reads "Question Authority."

I don't know why they don't simply hire a native English speaker to proofread things. They've spent countless millions on a futile campaign to get Chinese to stop spitting in public, but they continue to bring foreigners to laughter by printing bad English all over the country.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreakOil', 'I') don't know why they don't simply hire a native English speaker to proofread things. They've spent countless millions on a futile campaign to get Chinese to stop spitting in public, but they continue to bring foreigners to laughter by printing bad English all over the country.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreakOil', '
')And there's English like this all over China. I've heard that the Bank of China in Lhasa, Tibet, has posted a sign - in order to direct foreigners to the information desk - that reads "Question Authority."

[lotrfan55345]

All those engrish signs were probably translated by google translate or babelfish

[I_Like_Plants]

the stuff in engrish.com is real photos of real signs. Being around a lot of Asian ppl, I know it's not fiction, they really do screw it up that badly - almost 1/4 as badly as we'd screw things up in any Asian language if any of us bothered to try learning it!

After a while you get used to the "square ribs" in your local Vietnamese restaurant, or seeing a car service place's sign: "Smog Chech".

All in all I think they've done a good job at making the sight humorous without being mean.

[I_Like_Plants]

I looked at their latest and am all giggly now....

You gotta understand, I grew up where there was a brand of all kinds of neat candies and about 100 varieties of Chinese type pickled/candied plums and things ... that brand name... Yick Lung! yep, that's right, we kids were nuts over something called Yick Lung. They had TV commercials for it, everything. If there were Yick Lung T-shirts we'd have proudly worn them. Snacks were called pupus. You got it, pronounced poos-poos. Mmmm yummy delicious poo-poos. Couple of local hole-in-the-wall restaurants were called Bat Shin and Bat Jac. Now, I always got a giggle out of Bat Shin's recipies all involving bat shins, but Bat Jac? No comment.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 't')he stuff in engrish.com is real photos of real signs. Being around a lot of Asian ppl, I know it's not fiction, they really do screw it up that badly - almost 1/4 as badly as we'd screw things up in any Asian language if any of us bothered to try learning it!

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus.
Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treated.
"For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," he said.

[Twilight]

Yeah, give it some time, it's still at that early stage where exponential growth looks flat.

[EnergyUnlimited]

Not infective enough to be threat for heterosexual population.

1:2000 per go for man
1:1000 per go for woman

Unprotected sex with HIV positive partner assumed.

AIDS remains largely a problem of risk groups, as long as West is considered.
It is so difficult to admit in politically correct world.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'N')ot infective enough to be threat for heterosexual population.

1:2000 per go for man
1:1000 per go for woman

Unprotected sex with HIV positive partner assumed.

AIDS remains largely a problem of risk groups, as long as West is considered.
It is so difficult to admit in politically correct world.

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')
Ex-prof says HIV not sexually transmitted

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus.
Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treated.
"For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," he said.