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It is a bigdeal in the form that is common here in Australia among aboriginal people.
I was reading that HTLV causes a lot of infections and problems on mucosa and skin. That will explain what is happening to me lately.
Fulliculitis on the face , rash and bleeding spots on my arms and since yesterday an herpes on my lips.
I really hope it is not HTLV because my dead will be with sepsis as it happen to aboriginal people here.
Yesterday i also found that i have contracted in the past HSV1 and 2.
I think that my body is good for the sewage only now....
It doesn't share that many similarities at all, except, that it is a retro virus.
It does attack the t-cells of the infected individuals and leaves them subject to io's as well as being a disease without a cure. You are right though, it's not a topic for the forum buddy. I has got me thinking about the many striking similarities it shares with hiv.
It's not HIV. It's not even the same as HIV. A closely related virus to bovine leukemia virus BLV not HIV.
HTLV has nothing to do with HIV.
No offense but googling it provides a lot of info, i did so after reading your post. Also, they might be a htlv forum on medhelp. It states the disease is a cousin of hiv and that it effects t-cells, causes oi's, mostly effects blacks & Aboriginies populations, around 30% if they engage in iv drug use. Common in New Orleans. It seems more a drug related senario than through sexual intercourse as far as transmission goes. No cure...also it can cause bronchial disease of some sort, non-hodkins lymphoma, i'm going to test for this disease as well because of my needle stick, i'm at risk for this condition. GREAT MAN! Incurable, i hope i don't have this, but it may explain a few thing going on with my chest...