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Crossreactivity of HIV-Tests

Claus Köhnlein   (27 January 2002)

HIV Does Not Cause AIDS

Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati   (30 January 2002)

serologic follow-up

Nathalie O Petit, France   (28 February 2002)

The AIDS fraud

Jack Edwin Counts Sr., Richardson, Texas 75082   (2 March 2002)

How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate

Charles L. Ortleb   (10 March 2002)

Re: How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate

Steve Walls   (23 May 2002)

Sutherlandia AIDS Fraud by Ethnopirates

Stuart A. Thomson   (24 May 2002)

Crossreactivity of HIV-Tests 27 January 2002
Claus Köhnlein, Internist,M.D. 24159 Kiel,Germany Send response to journal: Re: Crossreactivity of HIV-Tests	You are pointing to a very important problem, concerning the validity of HIV-tests. Its even more complicated-according to Kashala et al. J. of Inf. diseases 1994;169,296-304 there is crossreaktivity between HIV-1 and Antibodies to Lipoarabinomannan which is found in Leprosy and Tuberculoses bacterias.So you will not know wether a patient is HIV-pos because he has tuberculosis or he has tuberculosis because he is HIV-pos. Treat Tuberculosis and dont care about HIV. I have done this for many years and nobody died. Claus Köhnlein
HIV Does Not Cause AIDS 30 January 2002
Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati, President, Toxi-Health International Toxi-Health International, 150 Bloom Dr., Dixon, CA 95620 Send response to journal: Re: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS	The AIDS establishments have spent the last twenty years focusing on the HIV and not on the real causes of AIDS. The correct approach for investigating the cause(s) of a disease is by evaluating all medical evidence that considers infectious, chemical, nutritional, and metabolic factors. As a pathologist and a toxicologist, I evaluated the published literature on the worldwide AIDS epidemic and found that HIV does not cause AIDS. In my book “Get All the Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”, I described the multifactorial causes of AIDS in the world and explained the pathogenesis of AIDS in different risk groups [Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati, 'Get All The Facts: HIV does not cause AIDS' Toxi-Health International, Dixon CA 1999, 183 pages ISBN 0-9673536-0-2]. My findings include: 1) The HIV-hypothesis is not supported. HIV is a harmless virus in both the in vivo and the in vitro settings. 2) AIDS in drug users and homosexuals in the U.S. and Europe is actually caused by the heavy ancillary use of glucocorticoids and other immunosuppressive agents to medically treat the wide range of chronic serious illnesses of the respiratory system, gastrointestinal system, and other organs, malnutrition, release of endogenous cortisol, and opportunistic infections in these persons. The appearance of "AIDS" in the U.S. and Europe has coincided with the approval of glucocorticoid aerosoll use in 1976, the introduction of crack cocaine, the use of heroin by inhalation, and the use of alkyl nitrites by homosexuals to enhance sexual activities. 3) AIDS in hemophiliacs is related to the use of corticosteroids and other immunosuppressive agents to prevent the development of antibodies for factors VIII and IX and to treat other chronic illnesses such as joint disease. 4) AIDS in people receiving blood and/or tissue is related to the use of glucocorticoids to prevent reactions of transfusion and tissue rejection, and to treat other illnesses. 5) AIDS in infants and children is caused by their exposure to drugs and corticosteroids in utero and their exposure to corticosteroids used after birth to treat their chronic illnesses. 6) AIDS in Africa is caused by malnutrition, release of endogenous cortisol, and opportunistic diseases. Atrophy in the lymphoid tissue in people suffering from malnutrition has been known since 1925. Malnutrition causes severe atrophy in the thymus and lymphoid organs and impairs the function of the T cells. These changes are reversible by feeding. The size of the thymus in malnourished children increased from 20% of normal to 107% of normal, following nine weeks of feeding. 7) Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and lymphoma are induced by the use of steroids and drugs, and the release of endogenous cortisol. They are not caused by a slow virus. KS is reversible upon the termination of treatment with immunosuppressive agents prior to metastasis. 8) The medications currently used to treat patients with AIDS, such as AZT, protease inhibitors, and glucocorticoids, are highly toxic. They can even cause AIDS in asymptomatic patients, and make the disease worse in patients with AIDS. These drugs do not have any therapeutic value, and their use must be discontinued immediately. 9) Damage to the immune system is rapidly reversible after removal of the true insulting agent or treatment of the true causes. For example. a) The CD4+ T cells of 1075 HIV+ pregnant women increased from 426/uL to 596/uL in six months by giving these women a balanced diet. This also improved the outcome of their pregnancy; and b) The reduction in CD4+ T cells in HIV+ homosexuals was also reversed by the cessation of treatment with glucocorticoids. My findings have been reviewed and supported by scientists and physicians. Below are the links to some of these articles and reviews:http://www.toxi-health.com; http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/11/aids2.htm; http://www.rethinkingaids.com/Archive/2001/index.htm; www.aliveandwell.org/index.php?page=study
serologic follow-up 28 February 2002
Nathalie O Petit, M.D hôpital Ste Marguerite,270 boulevard Ste Marguerite,service de Médecine Interne,13009 Marseille, France Send response to journal: Re: serologic follow-up	How long do your inmates stay in this prison? Furthermore , what kind of serologic follow-up is avalaible after the first HIV test is done ? Testing HIV when STD arises is not enough : antibodies may not be present , even in case of true contaminations. I'm afraid that your statistics are not pertinent in this background without accurate precisions Dr Petit
The AIDS fraud 2 March 2002
Jack Edwin Counts Sr., Medical Research 3105 Stonehenge Drive,, Richardson, Texas 75082 Send response to journal: Re: The AIDS fraud	Robert Gallo never discovered an HIV virus nor an AIDS virus. Neither has anyone else discovered such a virus. That is because no such virus exists. Neither of the two tests used for HIV and Aids are true tests. How can you test for an nonexistant virus. Read " World without AIDS" by Steven Ransom and Phillip Day, printed by Credence Publiciations, P O Box 3, TONBRIDGE, Kent, TN129ZY, England www.worldwithoutaids.org
How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate 10 March 2002
Charles L. Ortleb, Author, Former Publisher of New York Native New York, New York 10101 Send response to journal: Re: How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate	Legend has it that South African President Thabo Mbeki discovered AIDS dissent on the internet. It’s a shame that he didn't look further and find out more about AIDS dissent than he currently seems to know. He is overlooking an alternative view of the epidemic that is more grounded in reality than the one that has made him so controversial. Ironically, this other view also holds that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, but argues that there is a real AIDS epidemic and a real AIDS virus. President Mbeki has adopted the position on AIDS which is supported by some major scientific minds and at least one Nobel Prize winner. That position basically holds that the epidemiology of AIDS, as well as the laws of scientific proof, do not support the notion that HIV is the cause of AIDS. While I believe these HIV dissenters are on the money on that score, there is more to the AIDS story than that. And there is another way of looking at AIDS that doesn't result in their absurd position of saying that there is no real cohesive, contagious international epidemic of immune dysfunction that is shortening the lives of millions. It is the absurdity of that position that has made the AIDS dissent establishment (yes, they too have an "establishment") so ineffective in challenging the prevailing AIDS paradigm. If President Mbeki wants a crack at winning the AIDS debate, he needs to focus on two things: the definition of AIDS and HHV-6, the other virus which has been linked to the international epidemic. A disastrously incorrect definition of AIDS, crafted by America's Centers for Disease Control, has sent the world's scientific community on a hunt for an agent that will correlate with a far too narrowly defined group of sick people. HIV is a mistake because the CDC definition of AIDS is a mistake. At the same time that America's gay community was being hit by "AIDS," a growing number of American heterosexuals (who didn’t use recreational drugs or have any lifestyle risk factors) were coming into their doctors offices with serious immune dysfunction. Because their immune dysfunction was not as dramatic as that seen in the first gay AIDS cases, their epidemic was basically swept under the rug. Sometimes several members in a family had the same symptoms of immune dysfunction. They were told they had "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" and the American scientific community added insult to injury by telling them that they had a psychoneurotic disorder rather than that they were the heterosexual face of AIDS. Because the American AIDS and CFS establishment doesn’t want the public to know that this is really one epidemic, the only statistics we have for the prevalence of the CFS/AIDS epidemic are informal, but it seems to affect millions, and the real number of cases actually may be more in line with the percentage of people in South Africa who supposedly have "AIDS." My first bit of strategic advice to President Mbeki is to raise the question of whether America’s AIDS establishment is refusing to admit that our massive CFS epidemic is part of AIDS. If Thabo Mbeki or anyone else starts reading everything about CFS, I think they will at least come to the conclusion that the notion that CFS and AIDS are the part of the same epidemic is at least a reasonable hypothesis and should be part of a vigorous debate about the real nature of AIDS. Once it is established that they are part of the same epidemic, the HIV theory may die a quick death because all AIDS and CFS cases do not seem to test positive for HIV. It will probably turn out that the dissenters who inspired President Mbeki were at least half right. The second strategic move is to raise the question of whether HHV-6A is the real AIDS virus. Even a little internet surfing will show that HHV-6A deserves to be at the center of the AIDS debate. Extensive research shows that HHV-6A dramatically destroys the immune system in a way that HIV does not. But because it is also destroying the immune systems of people with CFS and some other immune disorders, it’s role has been obscured by the racial and sexual politics of epidemiology. Haven't the doomsday scenarios of the massive heterosexual epidemic in Africa made anyone wonder why there is no massive AIDS epidemic among non-drug using heterosexuals in America? Unfortunately, there is one. It's just that the American medical establishment covers it up by calling it Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It’s smarmy and ridiculous for America to be sanctimoniously pointing the prurient, racist finger at Africa and lecturing the continent about testing, prevention and treatment, when we have yet to tell our own people the truth about the extent of the American heterosexual AIDS epidemic. Most Americans have yet to be told about the devastating role of HHV-6A in AIDS and CFS. Thabo Mbeki shouldn't be afraid to talk about HHV-6A because the research already done will back him up. Knowledge is power. The more people know about HHV-6A, the more they will be able to challenge the HIV propaganda. Let me close with a practical suggestion for President Mbeki. As soon as possible, hold an emergency international conference in South Africa called "AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HHV-6." Invite the handful of leading HHV-6A researchers, which includes the so-called discoverer of both HIV and HHV-6, Robert Gallo. Also invite the leading CFS researchers from America and around the world. Many of the American CFS researchers have directly or indirectly linked AIDS and CFS. Some have been marginalized or defunded. Some live in fear of speaking their minds. Perhaps at this conference they will be able to tell the whole world the truth about AIDS, CFS and HHV-6A. Above all, I hope Thabo Mbeki will remain courageous. The people who have tried to silence his questions about AIDS are actually just bullies. Surely the AIDS bullies will turn out to be no more formidable than the ones President Mbeki helped defeat during Apartheid. ------------------------------------------------- Charles Ortleb is the author of "The Closing Argument," a novella about AIDS and racial politics.
Re: How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate 23 May 2002
Steve Walls, Consultant Greenwich Hospital, London, UK, SE10 Send response to journal: Re: Re: How Thabo Mbeki Could Still Win the AIDS Debate	Surely President Mbeki, as an elected representative of South African people, should not spend South African taxpayers' money on the American problem of CFS? Surely this shows that South Africans can vote intelligently - and vote an intelligent leader who doesn't try to hide things. Even those South Africans who don't believe Mbeki know how democracy works, and they challenge him at every opportunity. Americans prefer to vote without the followup - democracy is not supposed to be about voting and nothing else... you are supposed to get involved... create your own voice... challenge the status-quo.
Sutherlandia AIDS Fraud by Ethnopirates 24 May 2002
Stuart A. Thomson, Director Gaia Research Institute, Garden of Eden, Knysna, South Africa, 6570 Send response to journal: Re: Sutherlandia AIDS Fraud by Ethnopirates	As a HIV-AIDS dissident, I applaud President Mbeki's efforts to facilitate truth-seeking in the AIDS debate. I have posted a comprehensive pragmatic research document titled "Natural Strategies Against AIDS" at http://www.gaiaresearch.co.za/natstrat.html. The pharma-cartel are however not the only obstacle to a wholistic integrative approach to the phenomenon of global immuno-suppression. Back home, the desperate and gullible are also preyed upon by charlatans peddling herbal poisons. I have estimated some 10-20,000 mortalities per annum from this quater and posted a report to the SA Government at http://www.gaiaresearch.co.za/trads.html and a published report at http://www.gaiaresearch.co.za/trads2.html. Of particular concern are the large-scale commercial AIDS scams, chief among them being the indigenous shrub Sutherlandia. Plese see my very recent report at http://www.gaiaresearch.co.za/sutherlandia.html. Thanks to all persons keeping open minds on the topic. Yours sincerely Stuart Thomson Director, Gaia Research Institute, Knysna, South Africa.