Pneumoniae RZT

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Intro, Pagina 5

philo

on Feb. 7, 2007

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TRANSLATION

ROCA: Right! But here they disappear by themselves in three days… Then one year later the patients fall in the AIDS stage…

MATEO: And Doc, can an infected guy spread the disease the first 24 hours?
ROCA: Yup

ROCA: The best method for detecting the presence of HIV-P is the PCR… which is very expensive, but since there's a worldwide risk we just pay for it…
NOTA: PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction, a DNA-detecting technique

ROCA: It detects the virus as soon as the first 72 hours after one gets infected, and if it's positive we check all the family members and we hospitalize them… Fortunately we haven't had case reports in Chile, but we're prepared for them. Do you get the concept? (Eating noises)

ROCA: There's no actual treatment for it, but it's known that HIV-P is very similar to a virus that infects rats, in which, unlike humans, some of them improve spontaneously… a 0.1%… and these rats blood protects a 23%of the other ones… that's what we'e working on with Dr. Tamarindo… right, Juan?

ROCA: Juan!
TAMARINDO: Crap, my palathe! (I'm trying to emulate a Spanish-speaking-English pronunctiation)

MATEO: As solid as a rock! (NOTA: a pun with ROCA's name)
GUIDO: Yeah, sure…
CRISTIAN: Hey, I'm organizing a costume party next Saturday…

MATEO: What's the next lesson?
GUIDO: Pharmacology!
MATEO: Pff…