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Yep, absolutely. HIV is not nearly as easy to (unintentionally) transmit, and is much more manageable in the long term. If I was on my death bed and was offere
by meowface 12y ago
Yep, absolutely. HIV is not nearly as easy to (unintentionally) transmit, and is much more manageable in the long term.
If I was on my death bed and was offered to take a potential treatment that had a 1% chance of giving me HIV, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
- KMag 12y agoWould this still be the case if monkey studies showed the treatment to be worthless? It's one thing to give someone a treatment that is believed to be effective that carries a 1% chance of HIV infection. It's completely another thing to use a treatment that has had no controlled human studies against Ebola and the one controlled monkey study didn't show any benefit against Ebola, and carries a 1% chance of HIV infection. Now, as mentioned in the article, the blood will be screened for a variety of pathogens, including HIV, so the risk of HIV infection should be very low.