News: Was AIDS cure lost aboard MH17?

PoisonPill

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash: Was the cure for AIDS lost along with Joep Lange and 100 top researchers?

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There are fears the cure for Aids could have been lost with 100 of the “best and brightest” scientists and researchers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Joep Lange, a world-renowned researcher and former president of the International Aids Society, was with the group heading to the global AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia.

The exact number of scientists he was travelling with has not been confirmed but delegates in Sydney were told that emails indicted around 100 attendees were on the ill-fated plane.

Nine British passengers, including a student, former BBC journalist and two Newcastle United fans, were among the 298 people killed when the Boeing 777-200 was reportedly shot down as it passed over the war-torn country on Thursday.

Trevor Stratton, a Canadian HIV researcher attending the conference told ABC researchers had been getting close to a vaccine against Aids.

“What if the cure for AIDS was on that plane? Really? We don’t know,” he said.

“There were some really prominent researchers that have been doing this for a very long time and we’re getting close to vaccines and people are talking about cures and the end of AIDS.

“And you can’t help but wonder what kind of expertise was on that plane.”

Professor Richard Boyd, director of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, told Guardian Australia there were “some serious HIV leaders” on board.

“This will have ramifications globally because whenever you lose a leader in any field, it has an impact. That knowledge is irreplaceable,” he said.

“We’ve lost global leaders and also some bright young people who were coming through. It’s a gut-wrenching loss. I was involved in the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and it brings back that level of catastrophe.”

Rest of article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...7-9613821.html

TikiMiss

so I guess someone up above doesn't want AIDS cured...

Cannabis

Putin, you're the devil gurl

J Legend X

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sprawl II

wait..

psychodj

Auraeolux

Oh please.

Kyle.

they *hopefully* cant be the only ones with that information if it did exist

TikiMiss

More than 1/3 of the passengers on that plane were AIDS researchers, specialists, etc
Tell me that's a coincidence

Demiboyx

It's really tragic

NaughtyDog

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

so I guess someone up above doesn't want AIDS cured...

mte

jax.

oh my god

Tropez

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Originally posted by Kyle.

they *hopefully* cant be the only ones with that information if it did exist

Pretty much. No information of this importance wouldn't be backed up, and well documented.

Callisto.

Oh girl ****ing bye.

"Oh the cure is lost! The plane is gone! Can't get it now!"

They've had that damn cure since they created aids.

Zylo

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

More than 1/3 of the passengers on that plane were AIDS researchers, specialists, etc
Tell me that's a coincidence

Goodness.,.

PoisonPill

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

More than 1/3 of the passengers on that plane were AIDS researchers, specialists, etc
Tell me that's a coincidence

It's a coincidence.

Drowned_World

Yeah sure.

Denyy

Why did they all get on the SAME plane though? It's like people haven't learned anything after the Smolensk plane crash.

PoisonPill

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Originally posted by CoolestPerson12

Pretty much. No information of this importance wouldn't be backed up, and well documented.

OKAY ya'll are a bit slow. They're not saying "zOMG those guys had the cure written down and now it's gone!!!" They're saying that we just lost 100 of some of the top HIV/AIDS researchers in the world - the people who were most likely to find a cure one day.

Desert Rain

ddddd. someone is making a tonne of money off AIDS existing