Tommy Morrison in I.C.U

If the hospital confirms that he has HIV, is there a risk of him being sued for taking fights while claiming he was HIV free?

 

This is possibly one of the greatest fall from grace stories in boxing.

 

For sure he was tested for HIV. To come up with one in a million kind of a syndrome and considering his medical history, HIV was tested first.

Don't you find that Trishia's answers always short? She never answer the real and only true question. It's always a quick call or e-mail saying that she has no much time...

HIV tested he has been and if you were him (or her), wouldn't you be screaming loud if tested negative? That would be the ultimate proof if he can say: Hospital X via doctor Y tested me negative. Have a press conference and bring the doctor and other hospital collegue to answer questions.

In my opinion and after some reading on HIV, above the syndrome he been diagnozed with, he is 'IN' final stage of HIV (where HIV is now full AIDS) and that mean approx. 2-3 years to live and he already lived a year and half into this last stage...

AIDS: As the number of your CD4 cells begins to fall below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood (200 cells/mm3), you will be diagnosed as having AIDS. (Normal CD4 counts are between 500 and 1,600 cells/mm3.) This is the stage of infection that occurs when your immune system is badly damaged and you become vulnerable to opportunistic infections. Without treatment, people who are diagnosed with AIDS typically survive about 3 years. Once someone has a dangerous opportunistic infection, life-expectancy falls to about 1 year.

 

Good for a laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0QO-IPJ-2Q

 

He will be Wlads next opponent.

 

Some **** needs to post the chest wound photo.

 

TOMMY!!! HIV cure just a few months away!!!

By Chris Gayomal
April 29, 2013

Danish researchers are readying human trials for a potentially life-saving new HIV treatment. Already, when tested on infected human skin cells, the technique has proved effective at killing the virus. And if the treatment is deemed a success in human trials, we might be just a few months away from a bona fide cure.

The process can be best understood in two main steps:
1. Normally, HIV hides out in "reservoirs" it builds for itself inside infected cells. But this treatment flushes HIV from behind its battlements using a class of compounds called HDAC inhibitors, which are typically used to treat cancer.
2. Once HIV is flushed from its hideout, the body's own immune system — turbocharged by a separate vaccination — can then seek out the newly vulnerable virus and eliminate it. The hope is that every single bit of the virus is eradicated.

Now, the treatment is hardly bulletproof. "The challenge will be getting the patients' immune system to recognize the virus and destroy it," Dr. Ole Sogaard, a senior researcher at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, tells the Telegraph. "This depends on the strength and sensitivity of individual immune systems." That said, the initial findings are "promising," says Sogaard.

In January, the initial round of in vitro research was deemed such a rousing success that the Danish Research Council awarded the Danish team an additional $2 million to go ahead and proceed with clinical trials, in which 15 of the nation's 5,500 HIV-infected patients will be asked to undergo the experimental treatment. If "cured," the next step will be to test the technique on a much wider scale.

Successful clinical trials would present a rare bright spot in the ongoing battle against HIV. Last week, U.S. trials for a potential AIDS vaccine were called off after the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found the treatment — HVTN 505 — statistically ineffective compared to a placebo. (A cure differs from a vaccine in that the former works on people who have already contracted the virus.)

As the Telegraph notes, "with modern HIV treatment, a patient can live an almost normal life, even into old age, with limited side effects." The downside, of course, is a lifetime of expensive, ongoing medication: Once treatment is halted, HIV reservoirs can again become active to produce the virus. That's why researchers are scrambling for a cure.

Back in March, doctors were able to "functionally cure" a newborn, HIV-positive girl with aggressive anti-retroviral drugs starting just 30 hours after birth. Once treatment ceased nearly two years later, virus levels were so low they remained undetectable.

LINK: http://theweek.com/article/index/243402/breakthrough-is-an-hiv-cure-just-a-few-months-away

:happyhappy:yep:happy

 

I have heard he is now in a coma, in quarentine in a specialist unit with possibly days to live. I have no idea how credible this information is but Im hoping its not true.

 

WOW, sad news but aligned with my previous posts.

Nobody want him to die, but his health was going down (no matter the reason) year after year and this news was to be expected.

Very sad

 

If you work out strenuously for a few weeks straight, then have a CD4 count, you will have a low enough count to be considered as having full blown AIDS, even though you are totally healthy. Those counts are just another flawed method used to monitor/test for HIV.

 

pictures or GTFU

(Pictures.... LOL get it! That's funny, right boss?)

 

Perhaps doctors ask and evaluate all possible factors that can lower the CD4 counts before telling someone he has HIV...

That was just a copy/paste of an acticle ... I am sure they are more rigourous in real life.atsch

 

Well that is the problem. Most doctors don't follow proper procedure, let alone rule out the numerous things which can leave one with lowered CD4 blood levels. Immunology 101, the immune system isn't just relegated to the bloodstream. So why only take samples from the blood, that doesn't make sense, when there is bone marrow, lymph nodes, tissues etc. Doing a CD4 count from the blood stream, leaves several other parts unchecked. It is known that if there is an injury, infection, or strenuous activity, that those blood cells will travel into the tissue to fight, repair, clean up etc.

That goes for all HIV testing methods. Things like Syphillis, Herpes, Influenza, Hep B, Crystal Meth etc. can all make someone test positive. Most doctors don't go back and then test for say, Herpes, or Syphillis to see if there is a cross reaction. What is worse, it is well known that Crystal Meth will make the test react positive, whether smoked, or injected. You have doctors diagnosing Meth smokers as being infected with HIV.

 

Where do you get these?

Not that I don't elieve but am wodnering how accurate you're cources are.

 

In the past I have been in contact with both duke and his wife. Regarding this info though it was just passed to me via other sites. I have no idea whether it is accurate or not