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AIDS Research
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The following report contains excerpts from:
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The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor "The Great Global AIDS Plague of
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the 1990s (And How To Survive It)," Phoenix, Arizona, September 1990.
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Lancet, "Resistance of AIDS Virus at Room Temperature," Viral Oncology
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Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. September 28, 1985.
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Introduction
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America and the entire world are faced with the greatest medical crisis
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since the Black Death plague which wiped out over one-third of Europe's
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population several hundred years ago. The AIDS plague, the severity of
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which has consistently bee n covered up by the American and other
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governments to avoid a panic, is already at epidemic levels and will within
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a few more years be a pandemic. The economic, political, and sociological
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implications of this plague are horrendous and will change t he course of
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U.S. and world history for centuries.
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What is AIDS?
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AIDS is actually a family of viruses related to HIV (HTLV-3), Hepatitis
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B, Herpes Type 2HSV and Epstein-Barr virus (which is related to
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mononucleosis "the so-called "kissing disease"). There is not one AIDS
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virus but thousands (i.e., 9,000 2), or perhaps millions is more accurate.
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AIDS is the most rapidly mutating virus in history and therefore (according
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to former Surgeon General Everett Koop) it will be difficult, if not
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impossible to ever find a vaccine cure. (It would take thousa nds or
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millions of vaccines.) A person can carry the virus for 10 years with no
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symptoms of the disease (five years is average but many victims carry it for
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only one to two years before getting the disease). Most victims die within
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two years of the virus breaking out into the actual disease (i.e., when it
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moves from the body fluids into the cells). Once the virus enters the
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brain, maximum survival is two years. In 90% of the cases, it does enter
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the brain and dementia results. Some people get the virus and come down
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with the disease very quickly because their immune system is down, they've
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been drinking a lot of alcohol, etc. The disease is 100% fatal - there is no
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known cure. The disease has recently shown up in animals and fish (in
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recent months it was found in dolphins on the East Coast). AIDS is rapidly
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moving from being an epidemic to a pandemic. The latter spreads to almost
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everyone and becomes unstoppable - such as the Hong Kong flu in 1969.
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I. THE INCIDENCE OF AIDS IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD
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AIDS infections in America and around the globe are now beginning to
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multiply geometrically although researchers and health officials from the
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World Health Organization (WHO) to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to
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the Pasteur Institute i n France (because of very little testing) all differ
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on the totals. The CDC says there are 1.7 million AIDS victims in America,
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and estimate 440,000 new cases by the end of 1992. Other researchers
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estimate over 3 million cases in the U.S. today, and some estimate 10
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million current infections with the virus.
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It took 6 1/2 years for the U.S. to record its first 50,000 full
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blown cases of AIDS, 18 months to record its second 50,000 cases, and
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probably 12 months to record the third 50,000 cases (according to Dr. Ruth
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Berkelman, Chief of the surveillance branch of the CDC's AIDS program). As
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of March 31, 1989, there had been 52,435 "recorded" deaths from AIDS with
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WHO projecting 215,000 U.S. AIDS deaths by 1992. (AIDS will kill more
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Americans in 1991 alone than died in the entire Vietnam War, according to
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FDA commissioner Frank Young.)
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WHO estimates that during the 1980s, 6-8 million people worldwide
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got the AIDS virus, that over 10 million were infected in 1990, and that
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18-24 million more will get it during the 1990s. (500,000 new cases have
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just been reported by WHO in S.E. Asia over the past 24 months.) The U.S.
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Public Health Service, in a study released in late 1989 entitled, "The
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Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy" concluded
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that 14.5 million Americans would be infected by the virus by 2002. The
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Hudson Institute has estimated that 630,000 U.S. heterosexuals are presently
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infected with the AIDS virus.
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If one considers that WHO already estimates that up to 50 million
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Africans will be infected with the virus by 1992 (other AIDS research
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institutes believe the number is currently closer to 150 million) and
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that AIDS is exploding in S.E. Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, and the
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U.S. - then one can conclude that all of these estimates are low, perhaps
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very low. The lack of mandatory testing and the dishonest reporting of
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the cause of most AIDS deaths as TB, cancer, flu, etc., make the AIDS
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statistics hopelessly underestimated.
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A. THE NEW YORK AIDS INFECTION RATE : In New York, AIDS is the
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leading cause of death for males between the ages of 24 and 44 and for
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women between 25 and 34. In the New York/New Jersey area, 25% of men aged
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25-44 have tested positive fo r the AIDS virus (the highest "reported" AIDS
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infection rate in the world) while 3% of all new babies born in the Bronx
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have the virus (30-40% of children born to infected women are themselves
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infected). In a state-wide survey, authorities found tha t one in every
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155 women of child-bearing age in New York State was infected with the AIDS
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virus while one in every 77 women of child-bearing age in New York City was
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infected with the deadly virus. Since 1982, 10,000 New Yorkers have been
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"reported" to have died of AIDS. One in seven prisoners in New York City
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jails now test positive for AIDS.
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Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York Health Commissioner, estimates that
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there are 400,000 AIDS carriers in the city; other AIDS researchers say the
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number could be as high as 700,000. Dr. Joseph says that by 1991, the city
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will have 100,000 full-blown cases of AIDS. Today some 50-60% of New York's
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200,000 drug addicts are infected with AIDS, and over 70% of the city's
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homosexuals are estimated to be infected. (The CDC estimates that 60% of
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San Francisco's male gays are infected with the viru s and 54% of all
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homosexuals in Atlanta). In New York 44% of all AIDS victims are white
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and 56% non-white.
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B. INCUBATION TIME - One of the most dangerous aspects of the
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AIDS plague is that it can take up to 10 years after a person is infected
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with the virus for that person to develop AIDS symptoms and come down with
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the disease. (For about half of the AIDS victims, the incubation period is
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5-7 years.) These long incubation periods mean that an infected person can
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go on infecting dozens (or hundreds) of people for years without (in many
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cases) even knowing that they are spreading the disease, like a "typhoid
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Mary." Unless they have had an AIDS test, they could infect large numbers
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of people for up to a decade.
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C. AIDS TESTING CAN BE INVALID FOR 3-4 YEARS AFTER INFECTION -
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Another ominous aspect of the AIDS virus is that there can be up to a 3 1/2
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to 4 year period (or more) when a person can be carrying the AIDS virus, be
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infective, and yet test n egative (i.e., test as if he or she did not have
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the virus when they actually do). Dr. Imagwa of the University of
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California
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has reported that some AIDS carriers may never test positive. In other
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words,
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blood testing is not necessarily valid and p eople who have tested clean can
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in fact go on infecting others, blood banks, etc.
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D. THE MAGIC OF COMPOUND GROWTH - We all know the magic of compound
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interest, and how 8% annual interest, reinvested and compounded, can make an
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investment grow geometrically over a number of years. But imagine something
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growing at an 8% per month compounding rate. That's how fast the CDC and
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other AIDS research groups say AIDS (the disease - not just the viral
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infection) is growing in America (actually 8-1/4% per month).
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Using the CDC's own numbers of 286,818 Americans with the disease
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in June 1990, by the end of the year the number of people with the active
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disease would be 461,502. By the end of 1991, compounding at 8-1/4% per
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month, 1,194,834 Americans wi ll be dying from AIDS; by the end of
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1992 - 3,093,441; by the end of 1993 - 8,008,971; by the end of
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1994 - 20,735,553; by the end of 1995 - 53,684,169; by the end of
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1996 - 138,988,183; and by July 1997 - 259,500,643 Americans would have
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the AIDS disease (i.e., America's entire population).
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Undoubtedly at some point the rate would slow, but the magnitude of
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the problem causes one to stop and ponder. In Africa, the number of people
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contracting the disease doubles every six months, in Latin America every
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seven months - versus every 12 months in America.
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II. AIDS IS CASUALLY TRANSMITTED
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Once a critical mass of people have been infected rapidly by highly
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efficient means of transmitting the virus (i.e., sodomy, exchanging I.V.
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drug needles, etc.), the transmission by far less efficient means will
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inevitably occur increasingly often. These include blood transfusions,
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prenatal transmissions, biologically normal sexual intercourse, needle stick
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injuries, chance contact of sores or abrasions with contaminated blood,
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saliva or sputum, transmission by blood-sucking insects, etc.
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AIDS victims with no known high risk factor already form the third
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largest group of infectees in America and the second largest group in
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Western Europe. Evidence is mounting rapidly that AIDS can be transmitted
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casually, like the common cold, flu and a host of other viral diseases. It
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is important to understand that the AIDS virus has been found to be
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infectious outside the body - after being dried out in a petri dish - for 10
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days. It can survive in water or a moist environment almost indefinitely.
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This indicates that the AIDS virus is a tough virus capable of surviving on
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inanimate objects for a prolonged period of time.
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Resistance of AIDS Virus at Room Temperature
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F. Barr<72>-Sinoussi, M.T. Nugeyre, and J.C. Chermann at the Viral
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Oncology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, published the following in
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The Lancet, (9/28/85): "Sir, - LAV/HTLV-III, the agent causing AIDS, has
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been isolated from body fluids (blood, semen, saliva, tears). Its isolation
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in saliva prompted us to investigate the possibility of transmission by
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saliva, and we have studied the sensitivity of LAV//HTLV-III at room
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temperature. LAV has been reported to be inactivated by heating at
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56<EFBFBD>C for 30 min.1 and to persist after 48 hr. at 30<33>C.2 The virus used
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for the infectivity assay was 128,000 cpm/ml equivalent reverse
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transcriptase and was left at room temperature for 0, 2, 4, or 7 days in a
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sealed tube or allowed to dry in a petri dish. After the times indicated in
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the figure the virus was used to infect stimulated T lymphocytes (5000
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cpm/106 cells) and viral production was determined in cell free supernatant
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by testing for the reverse transcriptase activity twice a week.3 One graph
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(Resistance of LAV in liquid medium) shows unusual stability of LAV/HTLV-III
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at room temperature (20-22<32>C). No significant difference was found between
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0, 2, or 4 days.
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Only a slight decrease is noted with a delay in the virus production
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indicating a loss of few infectious viral particles after 7 days at room
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temperature.
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"Two petri dishes containing 25,000 cpm equivalent reverse
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transcriptase of dry virus were kept at room temperature for 4 or 7 days
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and then resuspended in 0-220 ml water and used to measure the infectivity.
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Another graph (Resistance of drie d preparation of LAV) shows significant
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numbers of viral particles are then inactivated, but some infectious virus
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is still present since release of virus was seen on day 10. This result
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indicates that the virus is resistant at room temperature, eit her in dry
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form or in liquid medium.
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<20>This resistance of LAV at room temperature may explain the
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appearance of some AIDS cases in non-risk groups. To prevent possible
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contamination by viral particles in dry or liquid form, hygiene should be
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increased in the general population. Moreover, some more safety
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precautions should be taken in laboratories and in hospitals and by
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dentists who use a vacuum pump for saliva aspiration. Indeed, this data
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strongly supports the use of disinfectants found to be effective against
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the AIDS agent.4<EFBFBD>
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A. SALIVA AND AIDS <20> Evidence is growing around the world that
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AIDS is transmitted via saliva. In Russia, five babies infected by AIDS-
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tainted needles transmitted the disease to their non-infected mothers
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through breast-feeding. Policeme n and others who have been bitten by AIDS-
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infected persons have become infected when none of the AIDS biters<72> blood
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has been involved and only the biters<72> saliva came in contact with the
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bites.
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Dr. Jerome Groopman, of the National Institute of Health, said in
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October 1984: <20>The recovery of AIDS virus from saliva suggests that direct
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contact with this body fluid should be avoided since saliva...could
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facilitate person-to-person trans mission.<2E> University of Montreal
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researchers reported in June 1988 that: <20>Salivary HIV (AIDS) is infective
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(able to transmit infection),<2C> and that <20>The incidence and percentage of
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AIDS virus in salivary lymphocytes was significantly higher than in p
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eripheral blood lymphocytes.<2E>
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The First AIDS Report (4/89) concluded: <20>The mouth of an individual
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carrying AIDS acts as a viral incubator, fomenting the manufacture and
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multiplication of infective AIDS viruses. AIDS virus has been found in
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<EFBFBD>higher incidence and percentag e<> in salivary lymphocytes than those in
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blood. The saliva of AIDS carriers should be regarded as an infective body
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fluid capable of transmitting the disease.<2E> <20>The incidents in the Soviet
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Union have profound implications: 1) The body fluid of AID S infected
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children must be considered infectious; 2) AIDS infected infants or children
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who bite, kiss, or drool infective saliva on other children or shared toys
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pose a health hazard; 3) Schools, preschools, day care centers, and baby-
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sitting servic es must have the right to determine if the infants or
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children seeking their services are AIDS infectious.<2E>
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AIDS infected saliva explains why so many family members (with no
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sexual contact between them) have come down with AIDS. There is an eight
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times greater chance of being infected if one lives in the household of a
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person with AIDS.
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B. CAN AIDS BE SPREAD VIA COUGHING OR SNEEZING? <20> British AIDS
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researcher, Dr. John Seale, believes that AIDS can be spread through
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coughing and sneezing <20> just like a common cold, the flu and most other
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viruses. As Seale said recently in a n interview with The Cutting Edge:
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<EFBFBD>If an AIDS virus is inhaled into the lung it is engulfed by an amoeba-like
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macrophage from the lining of the alveoli (air sacs). It has been shown
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repeatedly in the laboratory that the AIDS virus readily infects
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macrophages, and the virus replicates within them, thereby enabling
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infection of people initiated by this route.
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<20>Understandably, and wisely, the government had advised dental
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surgeons in Britain always to wear masks to avoid AIDS virus
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infection when using high-speed drills. These drills make aerosols
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of saliva similar to those produced by sneezing. <20>Chronic lymphoid
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interstitial pneumonitis is a well-recognized variety of pneumonia
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caused directly by infection of the lungs with the AIDS virus. When
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associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, a very common complication
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of AIDS, it is inevi table that coughing will produce some aerosols
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containing tubercle bacilli and the AIDS virus. After the fluid in
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the aerosols evaporates, the minute dry flakes containing tubercle
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bacilli and AIDS virus float in the air indefinitely, and both
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remain infectious for days.<2E>
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When questioned as to whether AIDS is basically a sexual disease,
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Seale responded that it is not! As Seale said: <20>You must remember that
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the animal retro-viruses, from which AIDS was probably derived, are not
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sexually-transmitted diseases. The maedi-visna virus of sheep is
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transmitted by respiratory aerosols, and the infectious anemia of horses is
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transmitted by large biting insects. I have no doubt that AIDS can be
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transmitted by both of these methods. AIDS is definitely not a clas sic
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sexually-transmitted disease, but is only incidentally transmitted by the
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fact that sex is an intimate type of contact.<2E>
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C. AIDS: THE KISSING DISEASE <20> A letter to the editor of the
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Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 12/89, from Italian
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researchers suggests that passionate (or open mouthed) kissing (defined as
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<EFBFBD>a kiss lasting a few minutes with vi gorous rubbing if the oral mucosa by
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partners<EFBFBD>) cannot be considered safe sex when it comes to the transmission
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of AIDS. JAMA (January <20>89) researchers studied 45 heterosexual couples,
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noting the amount of blood that appeared in their saliva before and after
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brushing their teeth, eating a meal, and passionate kissing, the percentage
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of individuals with blood in their saliva increased. They concluded,
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therefore, that <20>If the blood of one partner is infected, AIDS can pass into
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the blood stream of the other partner.<2E>
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JAMA concluded in their study (1/3/89) regarding how much blood
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contained in saliva can transmit the AIDS infection: <20>Kissing generally is
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considered protective sex (an activity which does not permit transmission of
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AIDS). We do not agree si nce the oral mucosa is very fragile. After
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kissing, 91% of couples studied had blood detected in their saliva.<2E>
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The JAMA study demonstrated that the presence of blood is common in
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the saliva of healthy male and female heterosexuals. Normal daily
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activities like eating and teeth brushing increase the frequency and
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quantity of blood in saliva. The stud y concluded that saliva should be
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regarded as a body fluid capable of transmitting AIDS, and that deep kissing
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is an activity which must be considered a serious risk behavior for AIDS
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transmission. Kissing an AIDS carrier can be fatal. (The CDC err ed when
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it said in its 1988 pamphlet [sent to 107 million homes] that you cannot get
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AIDS from kissing. You can <20> from saliva, and from the blood in saliva if
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your partner is infected with AIDS)
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D. IMPLICATIONS OF AIDS IN SALIVA AND IN BLOOD IN SALIVA-
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1) Direct skin or mucous membrane (i.e. membrane of the eye, mouth,
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nose) contact with the saliva of AIDS carriers should be avoided.
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2) Saliva tinged with AIDS contaminated blood which is sneezed or
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coughed into the air is infective (just as in the transmission of the common
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cold virus or flu virus). If the contaminated droplets hit the surface of
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the eye, are inhaled into the nose mouth or lungs, there is risk of non-
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sexual person-to-person transmission of AIDS. One doctor, an ENT
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specialist, believes that he contracted AIDS while performing as emergency
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tracheotomy on an infected patient while not properly masked. Infection is
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thought to have occurred from the patient<6E>s blood and saliva. Another
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doctor was infected by being coughed upon while putting a tube down a
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patient<EFBFBD>s throat.
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3) Since the AIDS virus can survive on a dry dish for 10 days,
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objects contaminated with saliva, or blood tinged saliva (i.e.,
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utensils, glasses, cups, etc.) should be disinfected or
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cleansed in H2O at 169 degrees.
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4) Persons in occupations which require the performance of cardio-
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pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) involving mouth-to-mouth contact (i.e.,
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policemen, firemen, paramedics, nurses) should be routinely screened for
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AIDS infection. An AIDS infecti ous person performing CPR has the potential
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of passing AIDS contaminated saliva into the mouth of the recipients.
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5) Remember, the stranger you kiss could quite literally be giving
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you <20>the kiss of death.<2E>
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E. AIDS IN INSECTS
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It is well known that insects transmit disease. The bubonic plague,
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which killed tens of millions of people, came from infected fleas which bit
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infected rats. The encephalitis and yellow fever viruses are transmitted t
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o man via bites from infected mosquitoes. Malaria, as well as Lyme Disease
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and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are transmitted from bites by infected
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ticks. The polio virus was thought to be transmitted by infected flies.
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Why shouldn<64>t the AIDS virus (which we know is transferred by dirty AIDS
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infected needles) be transmitted by blood sucking insects such as
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mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, etc. which have first bitten (and drawn blood
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from) an AIDS infected person?
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An article appeared in late <20>89 in the Journal of Infectious
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Diseases in which it was stated: <20>The AIDS virus was detected in bed bugs
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up to eight days after oral exposure to highly concentrated virus in blood
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meals.<2E> The Browning Newslette r (1/21/87) reported: <20>A British team
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announced in September that they had done a study in Africa and had found 19
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bloodsucking insects that were carrying the virus for AIDS...It has been
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reported that Haiti and Africa show a flat distribution for t he occurrence
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of AIDS across the population, unlike the U.S., which has an ethnic and
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ethical distribution of occurrence. The implication is that a different
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kind of agent <20> such as the mosquito <20> may be acting as the disease
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carrier.<2E>
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This would explain cases in Florida and elsewhere where no high risk
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activity was present <20> but a high occurrence of mosquito bites among AIDS
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infected people was found to be the only common denominator.
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F. AIDS IN SPORTS
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Emphasizing the danger of casual AIDS transmission, Italian doctors
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reported recently in the British medical weekly, Lancet, that a soccer
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player in Great Britain caught AIDS when he collided with an infected player
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on th e field. It was known that the infected player had the disease, but
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special interest groups insisted he should be allowed to play.
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G. AIDS TRANSMITTED FROM DENTIST TO PATIENT
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In July, the CDC reported that a Florida dentist who had AIDS removed two
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teeth from a young 24 year old woman and two years later she became positive
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for the AIDS virus. The woman had none of t he risk factors associated with
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AIDS. Studies showed that the virus which affected her had almost an
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identical genetic structure (i.e., DNA sequence) to the virus being carried
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by the dentist. The dentist had no cuts on his hands; in fact, he wore
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latex gloves and a surgical mask during the extraction. He simply breathed
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on the young woman and she contracted AIDS (much as a cold or the flu virus
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is transferred from one person to another).
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III. AIDS SPREADING TO NEW GROUPS
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AIDS is believed by most Americans to be primarily a disease either
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sexually transmitted by male homosexuals or by the sharing of I.V. drug
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needles. These were the first and most vulnerable groups in America (and
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indeed will be largely extin ct within a decade), but if you will look at
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Africa and elsewhere around the world, you will see that AIDS is primarily
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found in heterosexuals. Indeed, AIDS is not a sexual disease at all,
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||
although its foremost means of transmission at this writing remains sexual.
|
||
AIDS is a deadly virus, and as such will be spread in many ways and to
|
||
many groups.
|
||
|
||
A. AIDS IN HETEROSEXUALS
|
||
The Hudson Institute has done a study which estimates that there are
|
||
presently over 630,000 heterosexuals in America inflicted with the AIDS
|
||
virus. In Africa, where extramarital heterosexual relations with severa l
|
||
partners a day is the norm, AIDS is spread heterosexually. In Belgium a few
|
||
years ago, a traveling engineer traveled through the countryside having sex
|
||
with professional, middle class women. Out of 18 sexual contacts, 10 became
|
||
infected.
|
||
|
||
In America, rampant pre- and extra-marital sex (often with multiple
|
||
partners over a period of a year or so <20> and with some of those male
|
||
partners being bisexual) is now spreading AIDS rapidly through America<63>s so-
|
||
called <20>straight<68> population. In New Jersey, AIDS acquired from
|
||
heterosexual intercourse among women in that state has risen from 14% of
|
||
infections statewide in 1985 to 48% through 1988 (and is undoubtedly higher
|
||
in 1990).
|
||
|
||
Prostitutes in Europe, the Far East and America who engage in
|
||
heterosexual sex are infected with the AIDS virus at rates of 50 to 80% of
|
||
the total number of prostitutes. African prostitutes are 100% infected.
|
||
The male customers of these inf ected prostitutes are then going on to
|
||
infect wives, girl friends and other female partners, who in turn infect
|
||
other male partners, etc., etc., etc. One startling report which came out
|
||
of the recent Inter-national Conference on AIDS, held in San Fr ancisco, was
|
||
that 25% of AIDS infected men in a recent study who engage in oral
|
||
intercourse with males, identified themselves as hetero- or bisexual <20>
|
||
meaning that 25% of the gay men may also be infecting women in heterosexual
|
||
encounters.
|
||
|
||
B. AIDS IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
|
||
|
||
AIDS is now spreading rapidly among women <20> largely because of
|
||
heterosexual contacts, not because of contact with gays or I.V. drug users.
|
||
In New York City, 1% of the Black and Hispanic women giving birth are
|
||
infected. Among those applying for U.S. military service in 1990, men and
|
||
women infected with AIDS are now in equal numbers. Women now account for
|
||
10% of all AIDS cases in America and that percentage is rising rapidly.
|
||
AIDS is now the leading cau se of death for women between the ages of 20 to
|
||
40 in large American cities, Western Europe, and Equatorial Africa,
|
||
according to the London based journal The Lancet. In these cities, infant
|
||
and child deaths from AIDS are now 30% above normal. The r eport indicated
|
||
that over 1 million uninfected children will be orphaned over the next few
|
||
years in these cities as their parents die of AIDS.
|
||
|
||
The World Health Organization says that at least 3 million women and
|
||
children worldwide will die of AIDS in the 1990s (500,000 women and children
|
||
died of AIDS in the 1980s). Other European research teams believe that 3
|
||
million women and chi ldren in Africa alone will die in the next year or
|
||
two. The National AIDS Prevention Institute has predicted that by 1991, one
|
||
out of every 10 U.S. pediatric beds will be occupied by a child with AIDS.
|
||
WHO recently reported that in Latin America, A IDS is now infecting men and
|
||
women in equal numbers (i.e., the African pattern), while in some Latin
|
||
cities the rate of AIDS infection in pregnant women is up to 10%.
|
||
|
||
C. TEENAGE SEX LEADING TO TEENAGE AIDS OR AIDS IN THE EARLY TWENTIES
|
||
|
||
In young people between the ages of 15 and 24, AIDS deaths have increased
|
||
100-fold between 1981 and <20>87. About 21% of people now developing AIDS in
|
||
the U.S. are in their 20s. That means they were probably infected in their
|
||
teens. AIDS researchers and health officials are deeply concerned about the
|
||
rapid spread of AIDS among U.S. teenagers today. AIDS infection among
|
||
teenagers has increased by 40% over the past tw o years with many large
|
||
cities such as New York and Miami having 1% of their 15 and 16 year old
|
||
teenagers already infected. Among Black and Hispanic teenagers, the AIDS
|
||
infection rates range up to 7%. AIDS infection among U.S. teenagers is now
|
||
spre ading faster than among any group except homosexuals.
|
||
|
||
AIDS is spreading equally fast between male and female teenagers
|
||
(according to studies of 17 and 18 year old U.S. military recruits),
|
||
indicating that heterosexual and not homosexual sex is the primary risk
|
||
factor in this group. AIDS researc hers say that conditions are ripe for
|
||
the virus to spread among U.S. teenagers because of their high level of
|
||
sexual activity, their multiple partners, and their limited use of condoms
|
||
(all factors in the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa). This is tru e for
|
||
upper and middle class teenagers as well.
|
||
|
||
Covenant House, which helps teenage runaways living on the street in New
|
||
York, found that 7% of 1,800 surveyed were AIDS infected. The Hetrich-
|
||
Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth estimates that 10-15% of the
|
||
street teenagers it has co unseled have tested positive for AIDS, but that
|
||
the number is probably much higher because most teenagers who are counseled
|
||
have not been tested.
|
||
|
||
The CDC estimates that 20% of the men and 25% of the women now testing
|
||
positive for AIDS are in their 20s. Two to three times more 21 year olds
|
||
than 15 year olds are AIDS infected (i.e., up to 3% of 21 year olds are now
|
||
infected with the vir us). Since the time between infection with the AIDS
|
||
virus and development of the AIDS disease is typically 5-10 years, the CDC
|
||
has concluded that most of these new aids cases were contracted through
|
||
sexual encounters as teenagers. Because of the le ngthy latency of the
|
||
virus, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of teenagers continue to
|
||
infect themselves completely unaware that they are passing the disease on to
|
||
their sexual partners, girl or boyfriends or dates. It shows up in their
|
||
20s bu t was caught in the teenage years. (The American College Health
|
||
Association now admits that over 25,000 U.S. college students carry the
|
||
AIDS virus. (Considering the lack of testing, the actual number could be 10
|
||
times as high).
|
||
|
||
That promiscuity and unbridled sex among American teenagers is rampant is
|
||
obvious. The average American teenager loses his or her virginity at 16.
|
||
The CDC says one in six U.S. teenagers contracts a sexually transmitted
|
||
disease each year <20> there are currently 2 1/2 million <20>reported<65> cases of
|
||
STDs among U.S. teenagers each year, as well as nearly a million unintended
|
||
teenage pregnancies annually. In most areas of America, 60-80% of U.S.
|
||
teenagers are sexually active. The CDC says tha t one in six high school
|
||
girls has had four sexual partners. There are over one million teenage
|
||
runaways living on the streets in America today and health officials believe
|
||
that almost 100% of this group is sexually active. The incidence of AIDS in
|
||
fections in this group is very high, according to the National Cancer
|
||
Institute.
|
||
|
||
AIDS experts say that typical adolescent denial is coupled with teenagers<72>
|
||
tendency to deny their risk of AIDS infection because they seldom see
|
||
someone their own age with AIDS. Teenagers are a prime example of a group
|
||
that does not look 5-1 0 years ahead. Teenagers who have become infected
|
||
with the AIDS virus say that they were not concerned at the time they became
|
||
infected and gave no thought to <20>safe sex<65> practices or abstinence.
|
||
|
||
Dr. William Campbell Douglass wrote in his book, AIDS - The End of
|
||
Civilization: "Because of the sexual promiscuity of our young people, AIDS
|
||
will spread like the plague through our youth. The answer of the
|
||
professional educators: more sex education. It makes about as much sense
|
||
as teaching kids how to use needles <20>safely<6C> and how to snort cocaine in
|
||
order to reduce drug addiction. Sex education was a stupid idea. Now we<77>re
|
||
going to pay for it through the devastation of our childre n. How many of
|
||
our children are AIDS positive? Nobody knows because nobody is testing <20> we
|
||
won<EFBFBD>t know for 5-10 years <20> until they start dying. Teen AIDS is a ticking
|
||
time bomb.<2E>
|
||
|
||
D. AIDS AMONG DOCTORS, DENTISTS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
|
||
|
||
The Journal of the American Medical Association says that more than 4,500
|
||
health care workers in the U.S. are reported to have AIDS, including a
|
||
number of physicians and surgeons. Many are still practicing with little or
|
||
no restrictions under loose, largely voluntary CDC guidelines which do not
|
||
require the doctor to reveal his own AIDS infection to his patient. Had the
|
||
Florida dentist discussed above revealed his AIDS infection t o his patient
|
||
before extracting her teeth, she would probably not be dying today. The
|
||
American Dental Association, however, in a self-serving effort to protect
|
||
its dental constituency, says that reporting about AIDS infected dentists
|
||
<EFBFBD>does not serve the best interest of the public and the profession.<2E>
|
||
|
||
Surgery is becoming a high risk profession for surgeons and surgical
|
||
nurses, who often accidentally prick themselves with needles during surgery.
|
||
Doctors and nurses at San Francisco General Hospital were accidentally
|
||
exposed to blood in 84 o f 1,307 operations which were studied (i.e., 6.4%).
|
||
Contaminated blood would have gone beneath the skin in 22 procedures <20> or
|
||
1.7% of the 1,300 operations. Unfortunately for the 22 surgeons or nurses
|
||
so inflicted, all are now dying of AIDS.
|
||
|
||
Dr. Lorraine Day, until recently the Orthopedic Chief at San Francisco
|
||
General Hospital, does not practice <20>unsafe<66> sex or use intravenous drugs.
|
||
And yet the New England Journal of Medicine predicts that her chance of
|
||
becoming AIDS infected within 5 years is 50/50 if she remains in her
|
||
profession. Health care workers make up 2.2% of the population, but account
|
||
for an estimated 5.1% of all AIDS cases. Day, who acknowledged in late <20>89
|
||
that one in 10 of her patients had AIDS, said: <20>I almost got it Friday<61>
|
||
(after a colleague stabbed her accidentally with a blood-soaked instrument).
|
||
<EFBFBD>I almost got stabbed clear through. We were working on a drug addict.
|
||
Fortunately I had three pairs of gloves on, and it only went through two.
|
||
Ev ery time that happens, it could be the end of my life. I don<6F>t know
|
||
which stick is going to get me.<2E> Day has said that she was stuck with a
|
||
blood-contaminated object at least twice a month while at SFGH. Day has
|
||
also pointed out that the AIDS viru s can enter the body through the skin <20>
|
||
especially if there are tiny cuts, chapped hands, or simply open sores. A
|
||
number of medical workers have become AIDS infected in this way.
|
||
|
||
Day has been attacked by gay rights groups (and indeed lost her position
|
||
at SFGH) because she complained that the CDC has not researched whether AIDS
|
||
can be transmitted via sweat, coughing, sneezing or microscopic airborne
|
||
blood particles whi ch are generated during surgery. National Gay Rights
|
||
Advocates attacked Dr. Day, saying that <20>discrimination by health care
|
||
workers is a major problem for AIDS victims,<2C> and that <20>Lorraine Day does
|
||
not speak for all health care workers.<2E>
|
||
|
||
[Editor<6F>s note: As an additional indication as to the casual nature of
|
||
AIDS transmission, a 21 year old was delivering an AIDS infected blood
|
||
sample packaged for shipment. The package was not broken, nor was any
|
||
direct contact with the bloo d made. The young man had had no contact with
|
||
high risk groups. But he contracted AIDS nevertheless.]
|
||
|
||
IV. THE MANY FORMS (AND FELLOW TRAVELERS) OF AIDS
|
||
|
||
AIDS is rapidly mutating into hundreds of new viruses, while other related
|
||
viruses or venereal diseases which help to spread the AIDS virus, such as
|
||
Hepatitis B, Herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc. have exploded (i.e.,
|
||
quadrupled) in recent yea rs. By the end of 1985, two years after the AIDS
|
||
virus was first discovered, more than 200 different strains had been
|
||
isolated, each with a slightly different genetic makeup. By 1986, an
|
||
entirely new virus was reported in West Africa named HIV-2. It differed
|
||
from other known strains by more than 50%.
|
||
|
||
In 1988, AIDS researchers at the University of Miami identified 17
|
||
different strains of AIDS in one AIDS patient and 9 strains in another.
|
||
Sixteen months later, the researchers found an additional 13 strains in the
|
||
second patient. Flossie W angstaal of the National Cancer Institute says a
|
||
new AIDS mutant can arise every few days. Such mutations make the concept
|
||
of ever finding a vaccine virtually impossible.
|
||
|
||
In 1983, a formerly harmless poultry virus caused devastation in the state
|
||
of Pennsylvania. While making a copy of its genetic material, the virus
|
||
made a tiny error. Because of that error, it began producing a slightly
|
||
altered virus which a llowed the normally benign organism to spread beyond
|
||
its usual residence in chicken<65>s lungs and intestines. It had lived there
|
||
for probably thousands of years causing chickens no harm.
|
||
|
||
But soon it was burrowing into other parts of the birds<64> bodies, including
|
||
the nervous system, where it multiplied rapidly and began to cause a serious
|
||
disease. With its newly-acquired virulence, this otherwise mild-mannered
|
||
alien influenza virus went wild. Before the epidemic ended six months
|
||
later, more than 17,000,000 chickens were dead <20> all because of a minuscule
|
||
molecular mutation.
|
||
|
||
The 1983 chicken population in Pennsylvania is like the world as it is at
|
||
this moment,<2C> said Robert G. Webster, a virologist and molecular biologist
|
||
in Memphis, Tennessee. <20>What would we have done if this virus had occurred
|
||
in humans? Ther e are millions of us <20>chickens<6E> just waiting to be
|
||
infected.<2E>
|
||
|
||
Such fears are certainly not new to virologists. We should all ponder the
|
||
1918 flu epidemic that, because of a mutant strain, wiped out an estimated
|
||
20,000,000 people on this earth. The emergence of the AIDS virus is seen as
|
||
probably the gr eatest plague in the history of the world.
|
||
|
||
A. SUPERFAST AIDS
|
||
|
||
Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center have discovered
|
||
an AIDS-like virus in monkeys that can kill in about a week. This new
|
||
sudden-death monkey virus is a retro-virus in the same family of viruses as
|
||
the HIV virus. There are many simion immuno-deficiency viruses (SIV) but
|
||
this one is of special interest because of its extreme lethality.
|
||
Scientists at the Yerkes Center are concerned that similar strains of the
|
||
fast-killing AIDS viruses could be developing within humans. Patricia
|
||
Faltz, of the Yerkes Center, said, <20>the genetic makeup of this quick-killing
|
||
SIV virus indicates that it acquired its lethality through <20>subtle gradual
|
||
mutations.<2E> Therefore, the possibility that lethal AIDS varia nts exist
|
||
with properties similar to the SIV virus must be considered.<2E>
|
||
|
||
[Editor<6F>s note: The outbreak of Legionnaires Disease <20> a lethal, fast-
|
||
killing virus <20> which broke out in Philadelphia, California and elsewhere
|
||
during the 1980s and left dozens of victims dead within a few hours of
|
||
infection.]
|
||
|
||
B. THE EXPLOSION OF HEPATITIS-B
|
||
|
||
The CDC has recently reported that Hepatitis-B is now spreading rapidly
|
||
among non-drug using heterosexuals. This is a grave finding. Hepatitis-B
|
||
and AIDS go together. It is believed that 70-80% of homosex uals carry
|
||
Hepatitis-B and almost 60-80% have AIDS although they have not yet all been
|
||
tested, or tested positive. It may be that rampant Hepatitis-B is a surface
|
||
indication of rampant, but undiagnosed AIDS. Hepatitis-B has an incubation
|
||
period of 6 weeks to 6 months, while the AIDS incubation period can be 3 1/2
|
||
years or more before the blood tests positive.
|
||
|
||
There are about 250-300,000 new cases of Hepatitis-B reported in the
|
||
U.S. each year, with 8,000 annual deaths from the virus. A study in the
|
||
Journal of the American Medical Association says that homosexual men
|
||
practicing oral intercourse ar e 9 times more susceptible to getting
|
||
Hepatitis-B than AIDS. But the former seems to be setting the stage for
|
||
infection by the latter. Insight Magazine reported (12/18/89) that global
|
||
health records show 300 million people carry Hepatitis-B worldwi de. Up to
|
||
90% of all S.E. Asians are carriers of the highly infectious disease which
|
||
destroys the liver.
|
||
|
||
[Editor<6F>s note: Dr. William Campbell Douglass believes that vaccination
|
||
or inoculation with Hepatitis-B vaccine is helping to spread that disease
|
||
and make those so vaccinated highly vulnerable to AIDS infection. It should
|
||
be remembered that hundreds of people died from CDC flu vaccinations over a
|
||
decade ago.]
|
||
|
||
C. HERPES EPIDEMIC
|
||
|
||
More than 25 million Americans are infected with the genital herpes virus,
|
||
according to a recent study (although many do not exhibit the painful, itchy
|
||
sores associated with the disease). Exposure to the genital herpes virus is
|
||
believed to serve as a risk marker for other sexually-transmitted diseases,
|
||
and may pose a biological risk for infection with AIDS. The study indicated
|
||
that 20.22% of Americans between ages 30 and 44 tested positive. Blacks had
|
||
a rate of i nfection almost twice that of Whites, with nearly 65% of Black
|
||
women (age 30 to 59) found to be infected. Nearly 20% of White women of the
|
||
same age were infected.
|
||
|
||
D. VENEREAL WARTS
|
||
|
||
Venereal warts can be transmitted from towels and tanning tables. Dr.
|
||
Ralph Richort, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, reports
|
||
that they have been able to recover the virus from doctors<72> instruments,
|
||
glov es, and even plumes of smoke. The Mayo Clinic reported seven cases,
|
||
all from tanning parlors. It you can get this venereal disease from tanning
|
||
tables, you can get it from toilet seats.
|
||
|
||
E. AIDS AND TUBERCULOSIS
|
||
|
||
AIDS is triggering a global explosion of tuberculosis, and at least 2
|
||
million people are already infected with the microbes that cause both
|
||
diseases, Dr. Peter Eriki, a WHO official, recently reported. Dr. Eriki t
|
||
old a large AIDS Conference in San Francisco in July that 1.7 billion people
|
||
(1/3 of the world<6C>s population) are infected with tuberculosis bacilli.
|
||
Most have no symptoms, but 20 million are sick with TB and 3 million die
|
||
each year, Dr. Eriki said. AIDS infected persons become very susceptible to
|
||
TB and often die of tuberculosis. Progressively more and more AIDS
|
||
infectees are being found to have TB and vice versa. In some parts of
|
||
Africa, up to 70% of the population are TB infected wh ile 55% have been
|
||
exposed to AIDS.
|
||
|
||
V. AIDS AROUND THE WORLD
|
||
|
||
A. AIDS IN AFRICA
|
||
|
||
Scientists examining satellite photos taken over Central Africa have
|
||
noticed a curious phenomenon. Several formerly prosperous villages in Zaire
|
||
had been deserted and bush was already encroaching on the roads leading to
|
||
ghostly circles of abandoned dwellings. Further investigation revealed that
|
||
AIDS was the monster that had caused the villagers to flee in panic into the
|
||
bush <20> leaving their dying behind them.
|
||
|
||
In Uganda, WHO researchers have found more deserted <20>AIDS villages.<2E> In
|
||
many villages one in every four inhabitants had already died and nearly all
|
||
those still alive were inflicted with the <20>slim disease,<2C> (i.e., AIDS). The
|
||
Uganda governmen t admits that 1 million out of 17 million Ugandans are
|
||
infected with the virus. The actual number is probably 5-8 times greater.
|
||
In Uganda, health authorities recently tested an entire high school class
|
||
for the virus <20> 40% of the students tested po sitive. Kenyan prostitutes
|
||
have been tested and found to be 100% infected.
|
||
|
||
When a man dies in rural Zambia, tribal tradition demands that one of his
|
||
male relatives must have sex with the widow <20> the woman must be <20>cleansed<65>
|
||
or she will be haunted by the spirit of the dead man. In a country where up
|
||
to 30% of the pe ople are thought to be AIDS virus carriers, the
|
||
implications are frightening. One routine testing of blood donors in Zambia
|
||
found that 18% of donors were infected with AIDS. A VD clinic reported that
|
||
33% of their patients had AIDS, and in the Zambi an capital of Lusaka, 23%
|
||
of the population are reported to be carrying the AIDS virus.
|
||
|
||
An expatriate Zambian doctor says, <20>We test those who are ill and the
|
||
results show that 50% have the virus. Among the soldiers the rate is
|
||
virtually 100%; AIDS could wipe out the entire Zambian army in 10 years.<2E>
|
||
Zambian President Kenneth K uanda<64>s son has died of AIDS, as well as three
|
||
of his cabinet ministers, yet, as in almost all African countries, Zambian
|
||
leaders, to protect Zambia<69>s image, reputation, tourism, etc. deny that they
|
||
have anything more than a negligible AIDS problem. Western agencies believe
|
||
that AIDS infects 25% of the Zimbabwean population, although the Mugabe
|
||
government claims the problem is negligible. The Zimbabwean economy faces
|
||
collapse by the end of the decade. Malawi has 30-50% of its populatio n
|
||
infected and faces extinction as a country during the 1990s. In Zaire, 27%
|
||
of the unmarried women carry the virus. Incredibly, throughout Africa,
|
||
there is the surprisingly widespread belief that AIDS is an invention of the
|
||
church aimed at curbing sexual freedom, and that AIDS is a White man<61>s
|
||
disease.
|
||
|
||
The most frightening projection of all has come from WHO which believes
|
||
that the AIDS virus could claim half of Africa<63>s population within 10 years.
|
||
European researchers believe 50-150 million out of Africa<63>s 500 million
|
||
people are already i nfected with the virus. The South African AIDS
|
||
Economic Research Institute predicts that disease will cause a huge
|
||
population vacuum in Central Africa by the mid-1990s, causing all mineral
|
||
production to cease. This is the grotesque picture of a con tinent dying of
|
||
AIDS.
|
||
|
||
[Editor<6F>s note: A new strain of AIDS was recently found in Zaire that
|
||
kills a cell 1,000 times faster than the standard AIDS virus. A Zairian
|
||
caught the strain, gave it to his wife, who gave it to her lover. They all
|
||
died in one third of t he normal time it takes to die from AIDS.]
|
||
|
||
B. AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA
|
||
|
||
AIDS is wiping out South Africa<63>s Black population, and within two years
|
||
(by 1992) 18% of the African population between the ages of 15 and 60 will
|
||
have the disease. Incredibly, AIDS virus infections in South Afric a are
|
||
doubling every 6.4 months. The AIDS Economic Research Unit predicts that by
|
||
the year 2000, 50-70% of Black South Africans will be dead or dying from
|
||
AIDS. AERU says that by 1995, pediatric AIDS will have halted South
|
||
Africa<EFBFBD>s population growt h and that in a best scenario, 50% of South
|
||
Africa<EFBFBD>s Blacks would be infected with AIDS between 1996 and 2000. At
|
||
worst, 70% would have AIDS by 2000.
|
||
|
||
AIDS has come into South Africa via truck routes from Central Africa,
|
||
where 92% of the truck drivers have tested AIDS positive. These drivers
|
||
infect prostitutes in Durban who infect Zulus in Kwazulu and throughout the
|
||
Natal Province. AIDS h as also come into the RSA via hundreds of thousands
|
||
of migrant mine workers from Malawi, Mozambique and the Black states to the
|
||
north. it has also entered via ANC terrorists stationed in Zambia.
|
||
|
||
Black South African men and women refuse to use condoms or practice
|
||
abstinence from extra- or pre-marital sex. They look at government AIDS
|
||
education efforts as a way of controlling the Black population. At the rate
|
||
that South African Black s are presently copulating and spreading the
|
||
disease, within 25 years the entire Black population of South Africa could
|
||
be 80-100% gone.
|
||
|
||
C. AIDS IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA
|
||
|
||
One out of every 200 men in Mexico City between 25 and 45 years of age is
|
||
infected with the AIDS virus. Overall, Mexico has the second highest per
|
||
capita rate of AIDS infection in the Western Hemisphere with AIDS cases now
|
||
exploding exponentially. For over a decade, millions of illegal Mexicans
|
||
have been pouring into the U.S. <20> bringing their AIDS infections with them.
|
||
During the immigration amnesty of 1988, a Los Angeles doctor was hired by
|
||
the U.S. Immigration Service to test illegals applying for amnesty for AIDS.
|
||
He was shocked to find that 5% of those tested were AIDS infected. The
|
||
doctor was told by the CDC: <20>Your figures are impossible,<2C> and <20>Don<6F>t bother
|
||
calling us again.<2E>
|
||
|
||
In Brazil, where AIDS is the worst in the hemisphere, and second worst in
|
||
the world, and where AIDS experts widely believe that insects can transmit
|
||
AIDS, the AIDS infection rate is doubling every six months (as compared to
|
||
very 12 months in the U.S.). A lethal combination of liberal sexual
|
||
practices, widespread poverty, highly infected blood banks, and a highly
|
||
inadequate health care system has made Brazil a disaster area for AIDS. To
|
||
make matters worse, a deadly new strain of the vir us (AIDS II) is breaking
|
||
out in Brazil. The crisis in Brazil is compounded by the fact that Brazil
|
||
has a very high incidence of bisexual men, and they are already 28% infected
|
||
with the virus.
|
||
|
||
[Editor<6F>s note: Another ominous development in Latin America is that the
|
||
period from infection to disease, and then from disease to death, is about
|
||
half the time experienced in the United States and Europe. Also, throughout
|
||
Latin America, t he onset of AIDS has brought about a dramatic increase in
|
||
syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, and dengue fever (which has
|
||
increased 1,000-fold in Mexico over the past 15 years).]
|
||
|
||
D. AIDS IN GREAT BRITAIN
|
||
|
||
British Health Minister David Mellor warns that 25% of London<6F>s
|
||
homosexuals carry the AIDS virus. Warning that the British AIDS epidemic is
|
||
not slowing down, Mellor says that 40% of the AIDS carriers in London hav e
|
||
been infected during heterosexual intercourse. In Ireland, AIDS is now
|
||
doubling every seven months.
|
||
|
||
E. AIDS IN CATS
|
||
|
||
Researchers at the Nippon Veterinary College in Tokyo have found that out
|
||
of 3,000 cats examined in the Tokyo area, almost 30% were found to be
|
||
infected with feline AIDS. These were all outdoor cats and presumably the
|
||
AIDS was spread through sexual intercourse and through cat fights.
|
||
|
||
VI. GOVERNMENT DECEPTION AND MISMANAGEMENT OF THE AIDS CRISIS
|
||
|
||
The severity of the AIDS plague in America is being covered up by the
|
||
U.S. government and the CDC, and the disease is being spread even faster by
|
||
the government<6E>s bizarre behavior in protecting the <20>human rights and
|
||
privacy<EFBFBD> of the infected ( the already dying) instead of those who have not
|
||
yet become infected. And the government<6E>s <20>safe sex<65> campaign has misled
|
||
tens of millions of people into believing that if condoms are used, AIDS
|
||
cannot be transmitted.
|
||
|
||
A. THE AIDS COVER-UP
|
||
|
||
The longer the truth is obscured from the public, and the greater the
|
||
multitude of innocent people who die most horribly as a result, the more
|
||
ferocious will be the explosion of hatred and revenge against the scient
|
||
ists and government officials guilt of perpetrating the deception.<2E> Dr.
|
||
John Seale, British AIDS Researcher.
|
||
|
||
The U.S. government and the Center for Disease Control appear to be
|
||
deliberately understating the number of people in America who are AIDS
|
||
infected, and the growing severity of the epidemic. Their only discernable
|
||
motive for the cover-up wo uld seem to be to avoid a panic. But the
|
||
understating of the crisis and the disinformation associated with it is
|
||
putting tens of millions of complacent Americans, who would otherwise take
|
||
steps to protect themselves, at risk.
|
||
|
||
In 1986 the CDC (in Atlanta), the official government watchdog of AIDS,
|
||
reported that there was between 1 and 1 1/2 million people in the U.S.
|
||
infected with AIDS. Today, the CDC claims that the total number of
|
||
Americans infected with the AID S virus is still 1.7 million <20> almost
|
||
unchanged in four years. Virtually all other AIDS statistics in the private
|
||
sector make the present CDC numbers appear ridiculous. Even the CDC admits
|
||
that AIDS has been growing at over 8% per month <20> which is doubling each
|
||
year. At that growth rate, the total number infected in 1990 (using the
|
||
CDC<EFBFBD>s 1986 numbers) would be over 10 million people. Private AIDS
|
||
researchers estimate that for every documented case of AIDS, there are 100
|
||
million people who ca rry the virus. That adds up to about 10 million
|
||
infected Americans.
|
||
|
||
AIDS deaths are being vastly under-reported because of the stigma
|
||
associated with AIDS, because of pressure by families, and because of no
|
||
laws (with teeth) to force a doctor to accurately report the cause of death.
|
||
Many athletes and celebri ties who have died of AIDS are being reported as
|
||
having died of cancer, pneumonia, TB, etc. For an excellent book on the
|
||
AIDS cover-up, The AIDS Cover-up by Gene Antonio is recommended.
|
||
|
||
B. CONDOMS DON<4F>T WORK
|
||
|
||
The U.S. government, under Reagan<61>s Surgeon General C. Everett Koop,
|
||
began a campaign in the 1980s advocating so-called <20>safe sex<65> as the
|
||
solution to the AIDS plague. They defined <20>safe sex<65> essentially as the
|
||
use of a condom. There are several problems with this <20>safe sex via
|
||
condoms<6D> campaign, however:
|
||
|
||
1) Laboratory tests have revealed that four of the nation<6F>s most popular
|
||
condom brands permit the AIDS virus to escape. The study, carried out by
|
||
UCLA, conflicts with the government<6E>s AIDS prevention strategy which assumes
|
||
that all condoms block the transmission of the AIDS virus with equal
|
||
effectiveness.
|
||
|
||
The AIDS virus is 0.20 to 0.25 micrometers in size (i.e., a quarter of a
|
||
millionth of a millimeter) and can pass through the condom because it is
|
||
smaller than the pores in the condom. Condoms have not stopped syphilis or
|
||
pregnancy <20> and they will not stop AIDS.
|
||
|
||
2) AIDS is transmitted via saliva and therefore via kissing <20> which is
|
||
an integral part of sexual activity. Evidence is growing rapidly that
|
||
saliva may be more contagious than blood. Condoms do not stop kissing.
|
||
|
||
3) The government<6E>s entire <20>safe sex campaign via condoms<6D> has actually
|
||
encouraged more sexual activity (especially among teenagers). Many AIDS
|
||
infected people now have sex using condoms without even telling their
|
||
partners they are infected <20> and then infect their partners via kissing or
|
||
porous (leaky) condoms.
|
||
|
||
C. AIDS CARRIERS CAN NOW LEGALLY IMMIGRATE TO THE U.S.
|
||
|
||
Due to liberal and homosexual group pressure, the CDC has recommended the
|
||
removal of travel and immigration restrictions for people infected with
|
||
AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, and leprosy . Only people infected with
|
||
tuberculosis are blocked from entry into America. The Bush Administration
|
||
and the Immigration Department have lifted the restrictions and now millions
|
||
of AIDS infected people from Europe, Africa, Haiti, Mexico and Latin America
|
||
can no longer be banned from U.S. entry because they carry the AIDS virus or
|
||
have the disease. This is the opposite of a quarantine, which has been used
|
||
in past epidemics.
|
||
|
||
D. U.S. GOVERNMENT PROTECTS AIDS INFECTED FOOD HANDLERS
|
||
|
||
The U.S. government and several states have just ruled that it is
|
||
illegal to not hire, or to fire a food handler because he (or she) has AIDS.
|
||
(Remember, the AIDS virus can be transm itted via coughing, sneezing, or
|
||
touching the food if the virus is on the hand.) The New England Journal of
|
||
Medicine recently reported: <20>An average of 10% of AIDS carriers reported to
|
||
the San Francisco Department of Health were employed as food han dlers in
|
||
public establishments...an estimated 60-70% of these food handlers were
|
||
homosexual men.<2E>
|
||
|
||
It is now a crime not to hire a gay or an AIDS infected person for
|
||
preparing or handling food. As the AIDS epidemic worsens, the restaurant
|
||
business will go into a tailspin.
|
||
|
||
E. DISPERSING AIDS TO SMALL TOWN AMERICA <20> President Bush<73>s Commission
|
||
on AIDS has recommended that because of the economic strain on big city
|
||
hospitals, that AIDS infected patients, which cost an average of $800 per
|
||
day in a hospital, be mo ved out of the cities and into small communities
|
||
around the country. This relocation program is backed by most big city
|
||
mayors and state officials who feel the fiscal and medical facility strain
|
||
of the epidemic.
|
||
|
||
So, the recommendation is to establish regional centers, or <20>networks of
|
||
care,<2C> (i.e., AIDS treatment centers) across small-town Americna. This is
|
||
government quarantining of the plague in reverse. The moving of hundreds
|
||
of thousands of AIDS victims (many of who have bizarre moral/sexual
|
||
lifestyles) into small towns across America simply guarantees the more
|
||
rapid spread and a more qual distribution of the epidemic.
|
||
|
||
F. GOVERNMENT COVER-UP OF THE DANGER IN THE BLOOD BANKS
|
||
|
||
The U.S. government and the CDC have continually maintained that the
|
||
U.S. blood banks are safe. That is a lie. With an incubation period of 3
|
||
1/2 to 4 years during which AIDS tests may be invalid (i.e., the test shows
|
||
negative even though the AIDS infection is present and transferrable), AIDS
|
||
infected blood is constantly being donated. Private studies indicated that
|
||
a person<6F>s chances of becoming infected from a blood transfus ion in America
|
||
today still range from one in ten to one in five.
|
||
|
||
The CDC estimated in May <20>89 that 12,000 people living in the U.S. have
|
||
been infected with AIDS via contaminated blood transfusions. (The number
|
||
is about 20% higher today.) Homosexuals (America<63>s highest risk group)
|
||
continue to sell plasma to blood collection centers. Dr. Lorraine Day was
|
||
severely criticized by Bay Area gay groups for pointing out the danger of
|
||
having blood donations in the predominantly gay Castro District of San
|
||
Francisco. The Journal of the American Medical Assoc iation wrote
|
||
(4/25/90) in a recent study that <20>more than 23% of 2,921 intravenous drug
|
||
abusers contacted in the Baltimore area in 1988 and <20>89 said they had sold
|
||
plasma or donated blood after they began injecting illegal drugs.<2E>
|
||
|
||
G. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES COWER BEFORE AND CATER TO THE GAY
|
||
LOBBY
|
||
|
||
Because of the alleged political clout of the homosexual lobby, America
|
||
has foregone mandatory AIDS testing; quarantining; warnings by doctors,
|
||
dentists or med ical personnel to patients that the former are AIDS
|
||
infected; the blocking of AIDS victims from entering the U.S.; the blocking
|
||
of AIDS infected persons from working around food, etc. The secrecy
|
||
regarding AIDS infection which the homosexual lobby h as pushed to protect
|
||
the <20>human rights<74> of the gays, has greatly facilitated the spread of the
|
||
plague. For example, California has passed a law which makes it illegal to
|
||
tell potential house buyers whether the seller does or does not have AIDS.
|
||
|
||
As Lorraine Day found when she tried to warn medical workers of their
|
||
danger at San Francisco General Hospital, the gay lobby is completely
|
||
paranoid about exposure of most aspects of the disease. Their top agenda is
|
||
to protect gay rights, no t to contain the disease. As Dr. Day pointed out,
|
||
<EFBFBD>Twenty years ago there were one thousand people advocating gay rights. Now
|
||
there are 7,000 organizations advocating gay rights. Not only that, there
|
||
are many homosexual and bisexual senators and congressmen who don<6F>t want to
|
||
be tested. They don<6F>t want their wives tested. They want to remain in the
|
||
closet. And a lot of heterosexual congressmen have paid off their
|
||
political debts by hiring gay male assistants.<2E>
|
||
|
||
So because of homosexual influence at all government levels, the AIDS
|
||
epidemic in America remains the only government protected plague in world
|
||
history.
|
||
|
||
VII. WHAT TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY FROM GETTING AIDS
|
||
|
||
A few common sense precautions which you might take to lessen the
|
||
chances of AIDS exposure for you and your family are:
|
||
|
||
A. ONE MAN/ONE WOMAN
|
||
|
||
Heterosexual relationships between one man and one woman is the best way
|
||
to avoid sexual infection with the AIDS virus. Because of AIDS
|
||
contamination of saliva, kissing strangers or people who do not have a 100%
|
||
clean background can be a high risk activity. Traditional dating, kissing,
|
||
necking, etc. can now be considered high risk activity for a teenager, and
|
||
so the background and track record of those people teenagers date in high
|
||
school or college (or when old er singles date or marry) should be known
|
||
and should be very clean.
|
||
|
||
B. AVOID HIGHLY CONGESTED AREAS -
|
||
|
||
(i.e., crowded subways, enclosed areas with large crowds, etc.) as much
|
||
as possible. As time goes by, it will become widely understood that
|
||
coughing and sneezing (as with any other virus) can cause infectio n with
|
||
the AIDS virus. The greater and more confined the crowd, the greater your
|
||
exposure.
|
||
|
||
C. WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY
|
||
|
||
Wash your hands thoroughly before all meals, snacks, eating popcorn,
|
||
sandwiches, etc. When in public places (i.e., airports, shopping centers,
|
||
on buses, trains, sports stadiums, etc.) wash your hands frequent ly with
|
||
hot water and soap and especially before touching your eyes, ears, nose,
|
||
mouth or any other mucous membrane. This should also be done if you have
|
||
shaken hands with other people. Always wash your hands before going to the
|
||
toilet as well as a fter. Remember the AIDS virus can live on a dry surface
|
||
for 10 days (probably longer). If an AIDS carrier sneezes on his hand,
|
||
places that hand on a rail (i.e., an escalator) and you place your hand on
|
||
that spot and then rub your eyes or put your f inger in your mouth, you may
|
||
have just infected yourself with AIDS. Money can also be contaminated.
|
||
|
||
D. ALWAYS COVER A TOILET SEAT WITH PAPER
|
||
|
||
If the AIDS virus can survive for 10 days on a dry surface, it can
|
||
survive on a toilet seat. Avoid direct contact between your skin and the
|
||
seat. Flush the commode with your foot.
|
||
|
||
E. AVOID RESTAURANTS THAT EMPLOY HIGH RISK GROUPS
|
||
|
||
Homosexuals are frequently employed in restaurants as cooks, waiters,
|
||
busboys, or food handlers. Try to ascertain which one employ gays and avoid
|
||
these. A high percentage of such employee s (probably over half) are likely
|
||
to already carry the virus and therefore to be infectious. Ethnic
|
||
restaurants such as Arab, Chinese, Jewish, Japanese, etc. generally do not
|
||
employ homosexuals and are probably safer. Waiters should be washing thei r
|
||
hands between serving different customers and should be required to wash
|
||
their hands frequently. It is now illegal for a restaurant not to hire a
|
||
gay or an AIDS carrier, but it is not illegal for you to avoid that
|
||
restaurant.
|
||
|
||
F. DO NOT LET PEOPLE KISS YOUR CHILDREN OR YOU
|
||
|
||
Friendly non-sexual greeting kisses should be avoided because of infected
|
||
saliva. Instead, shake hands.
|
||
|
||
G. AVOID PUBLIC HOT TUBS, STEAM BATHS, SAUNAS
|
||
|
||
The AIDS virus can live in a warm, wet environment indefinitely. Hot tubs
|
||
in exercise clubs or spas bubble the water, and often water will splash into
|
||
a person<6F>s mouth or eyes <20> it also soaks into small cuts or abrasions. In a
|
||
steam bath, you breathe the steam. If an AIDS carrier has coughed or
|
||
sneezed, that aerosol is in the steam for you to breathe. People sweat
|
||
profusely in steam baths and saunas and if you contact wet or dry sweat that
|
||
is infected, you could pick up the virus.
|
||
|
||
H. USE GLOVES IN PUBLIC EXERCISE OR WEIGHT FACILITIES
|
||
|
||
Weight lifters sweat and that sweat, wet or dry, on the weights or
|
||
exercise equipment (i.e., Nautilus) can carry the infectious AIDS virus
|
||
which you pick up on your own hands. A long s leeve sweatshirt is also
|
||
advisable as well as the use of thongs in showers.
|
||
|
||
I. AVOID PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS FREQUENTED BY HIGH RISK GROUPS OR LARGE
|
||
CROWDS
|
||
|
||
Chlorine will not kill the AIDS virus. Private swimming pools are
|
||
preferable.
|
||
|
||
J. AVOID SALAD BARS
|
||
|
||
Everyone (including AIDS carriers) uses the same serving utensils and
|
||
many salad bars are uncovered so that an infected AIDS carrier could cough
|
||
or sneeze on the food.
|
||
|
||
K. AVOID STICKING PENCILS, FINGERS OR OTHER OBJECTS IN YOUR MOUTH
|
||
|
||
If you must, wash or boil them first.
|
||
|
||
L. ALL MEAT SHOULD BE COOKED TO 169 DEGREES TO KILL ANY VIRUS
|
||
|
||
If a cow is bitten by an AIDS infected mosquito, the virus can be in the
|
||
meat. Likewise if a milk cow is bitten, the virus can be transmitted
|
||
through the milk, just as a human mother<65>s milk can transmit the AIDS virus
|
||
to her baby. (Pasteurized milk is only heated to 142 degrees).
|
||
|
||
M. IN HOTELS/MOTELS <20> AVOID TAKING BATHS <20> TAKE SHOWERS INSTEAD
|
||
|
||
Bath tubs are often not well cleaned from the last occupant.
|
||
|
||
N. AIRLINES TEND TO HAVE HIGH NUMBERS OF GAYS WORKING AS STEWARDS AND
|
||
SERVING FOOD
|
||
|
||
Either refrain from eating (the food is usually bad) or order a vegetarian
|
||
meal in advance <20> which usually comes wrapped in Saran Wrap. Forego ice in
|
||
drinks. It is often touched by human hands.
|
||
|
||
O. AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AVOID HIGH RISK TRANSMISSION AREAS
|
||
|
||
Discos, night clubs, public swimming pools, jacuzzis, highly crowded areas
|
||
such as subways, etc. Avoid sitting next to people who are coughing or
|
||
sneezing repeatedly.
|
||
|
||
P. A NUTRITIONAL DIET, VITAMINS AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS, ADEQUATE REST AND
|
||
EXERCISE, REDUCTION OF STRESS AND GOOD HYGIENE
|
||
|
||
Will help to keep the body detoxified and the immune system up. If your
|
||
immune system is strong enough, you can be expo sed to the virus and not
|
||
become infected.
|
||
|
||
Q. SOURCES FOR KEEPING UP-TO-DATE ON THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
|
||
|
||
Two excellent newsletters exist which monitor medical research and
|
||
publications all over the world regarding the AIDS crisis. These two
|
||
publications are a great way to stay up with mu ch of what is being written
|
||
on AIDS all over the world. They are: The Cutting Edge and AIDS FAX. Both
|
||
are published by Dr. William Campbell Douglass, P.O. Box 1568, Clayton, GA
|
||
30525, or call toll free 1-800-227-6269.
|
||
|
||
Isolation from people is a form of protection from AIDS but is
|
||
impractical. Nevertheless, as the virus takes on pandemic proportions,
|
||
people in small towns, rural areas, or farms will be much safer than people
|
||
in large cities. Associate wit h highly moral, straight, perhaps even
|
||
highly religious individuals who have a very clean lifestyle. The risk of
|
||
AIDS infections will be greatly reduced. And remember, you cannot count on
|
||
the government, your doctor, or the medical system to protec t you from
|
||
AIDS. They are in some ways as much a part of the problem as they are the
|
||
solution. Use your own common sense precautions and pray for protection for
|
||
you and your family.
|
||
|
||
Lancet Report Footnotes:
|
||
|
||
1. Spire B, Dormont D, Barr<72>-Sinoussi F, Montagnier L, Chermann J.C.
|
||
<20>Inactivation of lymphadenopathy associated virus by heat, gamma
|
||
rays, and ultraviolet light.<2E> Lancet, 1985.
|
||
2. Barr<72>-Sinoussi F, Nugeyre MR, Girard M, Tron F, Chermann J.C.
|
||
<20>Laboratory and scrological studies argue against possible
|
||
transmission of AIDS by hepatitis B vaccine.<2E> Lancet, 1985.
|
||
3. Barr<72>-Sinoussi F, Chermann J.C., Rey F, et al. <20>Isolation of a T-
|
||
lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune
|
||
deficiency syndrome (AIDS).<2E> Science, 1983.
|
||
4. Spire B, Barr<72>-Sinoussi F, Montagnier L, et al. <20>Inactivation of
|
||
lymphadenopathy associated virus by chemical disinfectants.<2E>
|
||
Lancet, 1984.
|
||
|