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| location | San Francisco, CA | |
| age | 41 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | Jan 18 at 8:03 | |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jan 18 |
accepted | Can any other animal choke on food? |
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Jan 18 |
accepted | Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? |
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Dec 16 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 9 |
answered | How is evolution possible in contemporary humans? |
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Apr 12 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 3 |
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Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? @nico, So, are you saying that these illnesses have their own (non immune related) symptoms that the patient experiences, and that all the while they are *not coughing and sneezing and all the other stuff we get when we are fighting off a cold? |
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Apr 3 |
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Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? @Kondrad, I beg to differ. If a person gets shot, it is not semantical to investigate what actually killed them. "The bullet" is a useless answer, though clearly semantically correct; Did they bleed to death? Did some specific organ get destroyed? etc. It is *more useful to say that a person died of blood loss, following a bullet wound. So, similarly, to say "the virus is causing the sickness" is meaningless. The virus is provoking a reaction, but the mucous is being created by the immune response. My question is what symptoms do patients exhibit who have no immune response. |
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Apr 3 |
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Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? I'm sorry, but that's not really an answer. You don't appear sick because you are sick, you appear sick because as a response to the presence of a virus, the body starts to do all sorts of things which manifest themselves as symptoms. You develop a fever, you produce mucous, you cough, etc. But people afflicted with immune deficiency wouldn't have such a response, right? That's the nature of their illness. So, what symptoms do patients suffering from such illness exhibit? And why? |
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Apr 3 |
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Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? @Gabriel Fair, yes, that's my question. What brings on the "sick", given that what we experience as illness (the simptoms) is entirely the effect of our auto-immune response, and not the virus' effects, themselves. |
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Apr 3 |
asked | Why do people dying of immune deficiency diseases appear sick? |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Student |
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Feb 22 |
asked | Can any other animal choke on food? |
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Dec 17 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Dec 16 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Dec 16 |
answered | Do human beings have pheromone receptors? |
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Dec 16 |
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How do the brain and nerves create electrical pulses? I would argue that if someone is so "expert" as to be driven away by a question like this, then good-riddance. Sure, you want to stay on topic, but come-on! This was a terrific question, and a REALLY informative and well thought out answer. A little less technical than the ideal? possibly, but closing it is an overreaction. |
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Dec 16 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Dec 16 |
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What are the olfactory chemicals in whiteboard/permanent markers and what do they bind to in the nose, lungs, and brain? here's another paper that might shed light on the second part of your question... ploscompbiol.org/article/… |
