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==Koch's postulates not met?==

==Koch's postulates not met?==

Perhaps such a test is beyond medical science today. Still, the only way anyone could be convinced is if human tissue (e.g., a few live adult human cells donated from an adult) were infected in a laboratory environment and the effects of the HIV virus could be demonstrated to cause immuno-deficiency.  The problem appears to be that there is no evidence of the HIV virus infection in the absence of any other possible AIDS causing mechanism.  There are always other agents present in the disease vector.  And it would be ethically impossible to inject a medically purified HIV virus sample into a human to test for such things.  That sort of nightmare only happens in disease-of-the-week movies I hope. --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 00:23, 8 January 2009 (EST)

Perhaps such a test is beyond medical science today. Still, the only way anyone could be convinced is if human tissue (e.g., a few live adult human cells donated from an adult) were infected in a laboratory environment and the effects of the HIV virus could be demonstrated to cause immuno-deficiency.  The problem appears to be that there is no evidence of the HIV virus infection in the absence of any other possible AIDS causing mechanism.  There are always other agents present in the disease vector.  And it would be ethically impossible to inject a medically purified HIV virus sample into a human to test for such things.  That sort of nightmare only happens in disease-of-the-week movies I hope. --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 00:23, 8 January 2009 (EST)