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Abzyme. A word most of us have never heard of before. A word, hopefully, we will all know within a decade or two.

I know this is a wikipedia link, but check out the last paragraph: Abzyme. Want more information? Check out the reference here.

Are we potentially looking at the cure to AIDS? The global pandemic (I think that is a redundant phrase, but I refuse to change it) that decimates communities might very well be cured ... and soon.

The world we are living in is amazing. It changes so fast. In 1980, no one knew what AIDS was .. evidently it was around in humans since around 1908. By 1981 it was gaining American attention and scaring the living Bejesus out of health officials. For the next decade the world took many different looks at HIV/AIDS. Some quarantined the infected population (Cuba) others did not (most the rest of the world).

I am not condoning the quarantine at all on a moral or humanistic stand point, but it did limit how much it spread.

There have been fears, rational and irrational, about who gets AIDS and how. Eventually drugs have allowed people to live healthy lives with HIV (not AIDS). For example: Earvin Magic Johnson. Johnson was diagnosed with HIV just a decade after it became known in America. He is still alive. That is AIDS/HIV breakthrough #1.

Breakthrough #2 is spreading the right information about the disease so stereotypes and false fears can be eradicated. This is in process, but definitely not complete. Not in the rest of the world. Not in America.

Breakthrough #3 would making the drug cocktails cheap enough that everyone with HIV can get them and live healthily. Possible problem would be healthier, HIV infected people living longer ... may allow for them to transmit HIV as they are living healthy lives.

Breakthrough #4 seems to be happening before #2 or #3. Curing HIV. If Abzyme works like it claims has has shown to ... it would be the medical breakthrough of all-time. I feel strong about that claim, though I think the discovery of germs/bacteria is way up there as well as antibiotics.

The last step will be Breakthrough #5. Making this cure cheap and available to all and wiping off HIV from the face of the world. I think this will happen as soon as #4 is viable.

I know this isn't my normal type of writing, but I found the article before the wikipedia article on Abzyme and felt it was too awesome not to share.