The More You Know

[PHEDG]

No you cannot re-infect yourself with the same virus. Once your body has been infected with a virus, it (your body's infection fighting system, the immune system) does a fantastic job of creating antibodies to that virus and once it sees it again in your body, it will kill it (unless you are immune compromised as in AIDS, Transplant patients, certain autoimmune disorders).

However, the virus MAY have mutated and has become so foreign again that you may not have antibodies that recognize the virus and you WILL become infected. That is what AIDS is all about--they can't find a cure because the virus is so virulent and keeps mutating into different forms and once they discover an anti-viral med, it quickly becomes less effective against the HIV virus.





Now use this thread to post any interesting explanations to whatever questions you have answered yourself.


...this may fail

[nerdious dorkus]

And that is why I never bothered with the flu vaccine.

[Howard]

It's a rather quirky virus to be sure (and you can actually be re-infected with HIV - or rather get infected with different strains of the same virus). Top advice I always give to anyone that is newly infected is to become educated BEFORE starting any med program.

[Abraham Smashington]

I never get vaccinated. Fuck that. Not until I'm like 60. In response to Nerdious.

[Howard]

Generally speaking, I'm definitely of the group that believes you should let your own body develop the appopriate defense. If it fails, then Darwin is just getting rid of the chaff.

[Ed Hocken]

Whoa whoa whoa, against vaccinations? Sweet christ, as soon as the HPV vaccine gets approved for men. I'm getting in on that shit.

[Nathan]

It is important for medical professionals to be vaccinated. Plus, a lot of us get it free.

[Abraham Smashington]

yeah, well Jenny McCarthy says vaccinations are bad, so I'll believe her. haha

[B_Metal]

I'm lulzing so hard right now. You non vaccinator's sound like hole in the wall religious freaks. No can haz injekshuns. God mak ur body purfeck!!** Lollercaust!!

**I realize you're are not these people. But it's so similar that it cracks me up.

[Shit Dickface]

The internet has taught me that the elasticity of the human rectum is astonishing.

[Abraham Smashington]

Haha. Nah, I just don't believe in flu shots and shit. Fucking pointless. Don't be a pussy. Get the damn flu and beat that shit like a man

[nerdious dorkus]

Haha. Nah, I just don't believe in flu shots and shit. Fucking pointless. Don't be a pussy. Get the damn flu and beat that shit like a man

Exactly how I feel. Honestly, unless you're a child, pregnant, always sick, or old, you should allow your body to make the antibodies because the seasonal vaccine is a "one size fits all" but since it's a virus, it can and will mutate. Also, I don't go out that much and I don't hang out with children or sick people.

[B_Metal]

I don't get flu shots either, and honestly the wack jobs just don't get their kids vaccinated. I just found it funny.

[patronsaintofcheeseburgers]

The internet has taught me that the elasticity of the human rectum is astonishing.

...Patton Oswalt

[Shit Dickface]

YES. I put that album on my mp3 player this morning and can't get the idea of Brian Dennehy and fisting out of my mind. This is probably the point in my life where I should kill myself.