Gene variant could hint at HIV spread among blacks

First of all, the study was conducted on African Americans and NOT Africans and David Goldstein, a Duke University geneticist who studies HIV genetics says "A rican Americans have an especially diverse genetic heritage making it more difficult to link a particular gene to HIV susceptibility."
The media, as always, is a bit premature and making such a declaration and should get their facts straight!

The last time I checked, HIV was a sexually transmitted virus. How could a genetic variation in an individual make him or her more susceptible to being infected?

Concerned wrote:

The last time I checked, HIV was a sexually transmitted virus. How could a genetic variation in an individual make him or her more susceptible to being infected?

You're kidding, right? Why do some people catch every bug that comes their way and others never seem to get sick?

It seems you have missed the point entirely. The findings state that HIV just happens to attach to the black host without any resistance; as if the disease was created just for blacks. I'm really shocked that everyone here who is demanding intelligent conversation has eluded the fact that we are different by a minute fraction of only one percent. This should now be the focal point how one race of people hit the HIV lottery. This needs to be further researched because I truly believe this disease is killing all of us because someone ha a problem with one race. So if it is man made which probability agrees it is than we definitely have the capability to find the cure or release the cure or whatever it takes for US ALL to no longer be at RISK!

Listen hopefully your ignorance is bliss, because I refuse to believe OUR most common human ancestor who reacts to almost all ailments identically to us would be walking around with the HIV virus and it would not have been documented earlier with as much research that has been dedicated to the study of monkeys. This disease would not be smart enough to only want to attach and thrive best through a black host; unless it was genetically engineered to do just that. By the way how is this not headline news but 1200 people with food poisoning can outweigh the 40,000 new cases of African-American HIV victims that will die from this disease in this society. There is no way a world where promiscuity runs rapids in all societies should blacks who only make up 12% of the world’s population should attribute for more than 70% of new HIV cases. Once again I’m asking whoever is reading this article and understands the magnitude of this message please forward it along. This is not just OUR scientist fight, this is OUR fight. OUR family members and OUR friends are dying from this disease and they don’t care why they got it, they just want to know how to get rid of it. So, before another dollar gets spent on some research that is driven towards a global cure for mans most recent plague than do me a favor and save your findings because we are still burying OUR sons and daughters, OUR brothers and sisters, OUR mothers and fathers and worst of all OUR babies and elderly are dying from this lobotomy created disease. PLEASE MANKIND we don't deserve to have a weapon of mass destruction pointed directly in to all off OUR bedrooms please let’s stand for something. If you would like to find out what I’m doing to continue this movement please e-mail me @ francwaa1981@aol.com. I am only one man but I have several thousand people who believe in the eradication of this disease just as strongly as YOU and I do.

Francois wrote:

It seems you have missed the point entirely. The findings state that HIV just happens to attach to the black host without any resistance; as if the disease was created just for blacks. I'm really shocked that everyone here who is demanding intelligent conversation has eluded the fact that we are different by a minute fraction of only one percent. This should now be the focal point how one race of people hit the HIV lottery. This needs to be further researched because I truly believe this disease is killing all of us because someone ha a problem with one race. So if it is man made which probability agrees it is than we definitely have the capability to find the cure or release the cure or whatever it takes for US ALL to no longer be at RISK!

Wow, there's a big surprise; another conspiracy wackadoodle. Go do something constructive for your 'race.'