A MYTH THAT KILLS

New York Post ^ | 03 july 08 | Micheal Fumento

[rellimpank]

THE Senate is near to pass ing a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief - a bill whose priorities are based on myth, just like virtually all anti-AIDS efforts worldwide.

The world's top AIDS bureaucrat recently admitted the truth: "It is very unlikely that there will be a heterosexual epidemic" outside Africa, Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization, told London's Independent newspaper. His bosses at the United Nations issued an official denial - but couldn't truly challenge his science.

[A Strict Constructionist]

CDC wants all patients admitted to a hospital tested for AIDS. I’m more worried about TB than AIDS when I get on a hospital elevator as TB and Hepatitis C scare me a lot more than AIDS, but they aren’t politically correct. We’ll hepatitis C is PC in certain groups.

[Condor51]

Donna Shalala:
Grossly exaggerated AIDS threat.

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Following a year serving as Chair of the Children's Defense Fund (1992-1993), Shalala was appointed United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. She served in this role for all eight years of his administration, becoming the nation's longest serving HHS Secretary....

In her role as HHS Secretary, Shalala frequently drew criticism for her positions, which were seen by some as too liberal. The Washington Post labeled her "one of the most controversial Clinton Cabinet nominees."

She had no more business being Secretary of Health and Human Services than Crusty The Clown. Read her linked bio, 100% unqualified.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Could it be that HIV is a simple STD that does not kill

Maybe we could ask Magic Johnson and his wife.

[xzins]

The last I checked, AIDS in Africa was still be diagnosed by symptoms rather than by lab tests.

Now we can give great big contracts for billions to people who will front various businesses, organizations, and individuals.

It’s the way money scams work.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Free Descendant]

The incidence of open sores on the genitalia is widespread

Isn't that some sort of indicator to "stay away"?

[Free Descendant]

It’s wierd, I saw a headline in the last couple of days about mental health clinics in Africa wanting to treat both mental health AND HIV now because, they say, late stage HIV infections cause psychosis or some such...I wonder if that’s just someone trying to get on the gravy train.

[Free Descendant]

Everyone Has AIDS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FZOL3oZxo

[Don W]

While that chart is probably a reasonable representation with cancer removed from the equation, it *could* be considered misleading. My observations and anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that breast cancer alone has a higher funding rate than that for all prostate problems combined. Breast cancer research is conspicuous by its absence.

I do like the chart, though. I might use it elsewhere, if that’s OK with you.

[hinckley buzzard]

THE Senate is near to pass ing a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief

And George Bush is so eager to sign your tax dollars away on this scam, he's slobbering at the mouth.

[ovrtaxt]

I do like the chart, though. I might use it elsewhere, if that’s OK with you.

Fine with me, I stole it myself!

[RipSawyer]

Didn’t the greens say we have to many people on earth?.
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Actually no, I think what they said was that we have too many people on Earth.

[American in Israel]

You cannot raise live HIV in Human subjects beyond two weeks because the immune system kills the virus.

I think that HIV is not the cause of death, but is a simple, low grade viral infection that is passed along with multiple immune diseases.

By focusing on HIV we are targeting the wrong issue and that is why the most studied disease in mankinds history has been evading our cures.

You missed my point my FRiend...

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

HIV wasn’t believed to be the cause of death. AIDS was. HIV was believed to have caused AIDS.

Magic Johnson has had HIV for the better part of 20 years and he’s yet to contract AIDS or suffer any noticeable ill effects.

I was agreeing with part of your point about HIV (that it doesn’t kill) and making my own (that it probably doesn’t cause AIDS, either).

[American in Israel]

Thanks, blessings on ya!

[wolf78]

HIV wasn’t believed to be the cause of death. AIDS was. HIV was believed to have caused AIDS.

AIDS is not a disease, but a syndrome, i.e. a certain set of symptoms. The disease that causes AIDS is HIV infection. It's the same as loss of hair, vomiting etc. are a syndrome (acute radiation syndrome), while the underlying disease is radiation poisoning. The connection between HIV and AIDS is scientifically well established: 98+% of all people infected with HIV will - without medication - develop AIDS. The problem, as mentioned before, was that the diagnosis "AIDS" in Africa was made by symptoms, rather than antibody tests, and thus inflated (due to malnutrition etc., which can lead to similar symptoms). For those with an antibody or PCR test, the connection between HIV and AIDS is undisputably sound.

Magic Johnson has had HIV for the better part of 20 years and he’s yet to contract AIDS or suffer any noticeable ill effects.

True. Depending on the genetic markup of the patient and on the specific strain of the virus, latency periods (without medication) vary greatly, e.g. from one to twenty years (between infection and developing AIDS). Approx. one percent are long-term (20+ years) nonprogressors, approx 0.3% will never develop AIDS at all. Thus, even if HIV jumped the species barrier (from ape to human) hundreds of years ago (i.e. before antiretroviral drugs), mankind as a whole could never be wiped out ;) .

I was agreeing with part of your point about HIV (that it doesn’t kill) and making my own (that it probably doesn’t cause AIDS, either).

Aaaah, so called AIDS denialism. Usually a way for quacks to profit from AIDS without having to learn medicine. As said before, there's money in HIV, and there are enough unscrupulous individuals wanting have a part in it by selling herbal cures and sh*t. Any medical professional (i.e. epidemiologist or research scientist) will debunk their whole claims within less than 5 minutes.

[Coleus]

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