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OutsideObserver145 karma

Wait till you start working with this little guy or his cousin P. vulgaris, they smell like... sickness.

OutsideObserver125 karma

Sorry you got down voted for asking a question. Reddit forgets sometimes that not knowing things is not a big deal, and that asking is the only way to learn.

Ebola and most diseases are more deadly for AIDS infected patients because the immune system is nearly completely compromised by the time HIV progresses to AIDS. From aids.gov "When the number of your CD4 cells falls below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood (200 cells/mm3), you are considered to have progressed to AIDS."

CD4 cells are a type of protein on the surface of many of your body's immune system cells, especially T-Helper Cells. T-Helper Cells basically "mark" cells (through the use of Cytokines, another type of protein) to tell the immune system what to do with certain cells (IE kill them because they're bad, or let them live because they're good)

With a low CD4 count, your body will not be able to easily recognize infections, nor tell the difference between healthy body cells and invaders.

What this means is, if you were an AIDS patient infected by Ebola (Where in some places in Africa the HIV/AIDS infection rates top 15%) then your body would not be able to do what little it already can if you were healthy. I would be shocked if an AIDS patient had any chance at all at surviving Ebola.

OutsideObserver47 karma

Pluck a hair and straighten it, then measure your beard length at the end and divide by 6,048,000 (the number of seconds in 70 days) and see how close you have estimated the beard-second. Your answer should be somewhere near 5 nanometers/second.

OutsideObserver38 karma

Probably because it did not come from within Romania itself.

OutsideObserver29 karma

However, you'll have to do this to another project because I just funded this one.

Damn, that was as badass as walking away from an explosion without flinching.

Maybe more.