- For almost a quarter-century the AIDS establishment has
drummed into our heads that the HIV virus is the sole cause of AIDS, an
epidemic that has already killed more than 25 million people worldwide
since 1981. AIDS research is entirely consumed with the development and
sale of expensive "anti-virals", which few people can afford.
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- A few adventurous researchers have suggested that there
is more to AIDS than simply "a virus." Some research, most of
it totally ignored, points to bacteria (also mycoplasma-like bacteria)
as an important and necessary "co-factor" for the development
of HIV infection into "full- blown AIDS." According to one
website, 2,543 scientists and educators have expressed doubts that "HIV"
causes AIDS (http://www.rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm). Nevertheless,
the mantra that "HIV is the sole cause of AIDS" is so well-known
and accepted universally that any suggestion to the contrary is usually
met with disdain by the AIDS establishment. One notable example of this
disdain was provided by noted AIDS retroviral researcher David Ho, M.D.,
TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1996, when he famously declared to
detractors: "It's the virus, stupid!"
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- Despite this lack of interest in bacteria as a cause
of AIDS, there is published evidence in the medical journals that TB-like
bacteria are indeed implicated as primary agents in AIDS. This research
continues to be ignored or condemned.
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- Attached below is an abstract of a recently published
paper by Broxmeyer and Cantwell (and some additional references) that
strongly suggests there is more to AIDS than what we have been told.
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- If possible, please pass this posting on to interested
others. For more information on the role of bacteria in AIDS, Google:
AIDS + acid-fast bacteria.
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- Med Hypotheses. 2008 Aug 6. [Epub ahead of print]? Links
AIDS: "It's the bacteria, stupid!"
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- Broxmeyer L, Cantwell A. C/o Med-America Research, 208-11
Estates Drive, Bayside, NY 11360, USA.
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- Acid-fast tuberculous mycobacterial infections are common
in AIDS and are regarded as secondary "opportunistic infections."
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
Genital Tuberculosis, a Forgotten Disease? TB is the major attributable
cause of death in AIDS patients. Could such bacteria play a primary or
causative role in AIDS? Certainly, In screening tests for HIV, there is
frequent, up to 70%, cross-reactivity, between the gag and pol proteins
of HIV and patients with mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis.
By 1972, five years before gays started dying in the U.S., Rolland wrote
Genital Tuberculosis, a Forgotten Disease? And ironically, in 1979, on
the eve of AIDS recognition, Gondzik and Jasiewicz showed that even in
the laboratory, genitally infected tubercular male guinea pigs could
infect healthy females through their semen by an HIV- compatible ratio
of 1 in 6 or 17%, prompting him to warn his patients that not only was
tuberculosis a sexually transmitted disease, but also the necessity of
the application of suitable contraceptives, such as condoms, to avoid
it. Gondzik's solution and date of publication are chilling; his findings
significant. Since 1982 Cantwell et al found acid-fast bacteria closely
related to tuberculosis (TB) and atypical tuberculosis in AIDS tissue.
On the other hand molecular biologist and virologist Duesberg, who originally
defined retroviral ultrastructure, has made it clear that HIV is not the
cause of AIDS and that the so-called AIDS retrovirus has never been isolated
in its pure state. Dr. Etienne de Harven, first to examine retroviruses
under the electron, agrees. In 1993 HIV co-discoverer Luc Montagnier reported
on cell- wall-deficient (CWD) bacteria which he called "mycoplasma"
in AIDS tissue. He suspected these as a necessary "co-factor"
for AIDS. Remarkably, Montagnier remained silent on Cantwell's reports
of acid-fast bacteria which could simulate "mycoplasma" in AIDS
tissue. Mattman makes clear that the differentiation between mycoplasma
and CWD bacteria is difficult at best and cites Pachas's 1985 study wherein
one mycoplasma was actually mistaken for a CWD form of a bacterium closely
related to the mycobacteria. It is important to realize that the statement
"HIV is the sole cause of AIDS" is just a hypothesis. There
are unanswered questions and controversy concerning the role of HIV "as
the sole cause of AIDS." And until they are resolved, a cure is not
possible. This paper explores the possible role of acid-fast tuberculous
mycobacteria as "primary agents" in AIDS. PMID: 18691828 [PubMed
- as supplied by publisher] Related Articles
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- [Development of antituberculous drugs: current status
and future prospects] [Kekkaku. 2006] [Tuberculosis in compromised hosts]
[Kekkaku. 2003] API TB Consensus Guidelines 2006: Management of pulmonary
tuberculosis, extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculosis in special
situations. [J Assoc Physicians India. 2006] A critique of the Montagnier
evidence for the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. [Med Hypotheses. 2004] Clinical
features of tuberculosis associated with HIV infection in Taiwan. [J Formos
Med Assoc. 1996] Additional references:
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- Related Articles, LinksCantwell AR Jr.
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- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection and immunoblastic
sarcoma in a fatal case of AIDS.
- Growth. 1986 Spring;50(1):32-40.
- PMID: 3732865 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Related Articles, LinksCantwell AR Jr, Rowe L.
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- African "eosinophilic bodies" in vivo in two
American men with Kaposi's sarcoma and AIDS.
- J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1985 Apr;11(4):408-12.
- PMID: 2579991 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Related Articles, LinksCantwell AR Jr.
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- Kaposi's sarcoma and variably acid-fast bacteria in vivo
in two homosexual men.
- Cutis. 1983 Jul;32(1):58-61, 63-4, 68.
- PMID: 6884084 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Related Articles, LinksCantwell AR Jr.
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- Necroscopic findings of variably acid-fast bacteria in
a fatal case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Growth. 1983 Summer;47(2):129-34.
- PMID: 6618256 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Related Articles, LinksCantwell AR Jr.
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- Variably acid-fast bacteria in vivo in a case of reactive
lymph node hyperplasia occurring in a young male homosexual.
- Growth. 1982 Winter;46(4):331-6.
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