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Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society
“It was often difficult to distinguish adverse events possibly associated with administration of RETROVIR® (AZT™) from underlying signs of HIV disease or intercurrent illnesses”Retrovir product monograph. GlaxoSmithKline. 2005 Sep 21
Originally posted by Danbones
AZT causes the synptomes of the syndrome though
Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society
“It was often difficult to distinguish adverse events possibly associated with administration of RETROVIR® (AZT™) from underlying signs of HIV disease or intercurrent illnesses”Retrovir product monograph. GlaxoSmithKline. 2005 Sep 21
aras.ab.ca...
A 5-month-old boy was diagnosed with severe thrombopenia. His parents had been engaged in injecting drug use practices (sharing needles) for long time before they married. They had declined testing for HIV antibodies in the past, and both were currently in good health. The paediatrician decided to examine the child's HIV serological status, but subsequently it was suggested that he should perform a viral load test, because the result could be available the next day and the presence of HIV sequences rather than the detection of antibodies, which can reflect passive transfer from the mother, is more accurate for the diagnosis of HIV infection in newborns. The child's plasma viral load was 3044 HIV RNA copies/ml, and he began to receive zidovudine plus didanosine in combination once this information was available. Unexpectedly, days later it was discovered that HIV antibodies were not detected in sera collected from the child or from his parents. Moreover, additional serological screening assays, including Western blot analysis, yielded negative results for HIV antibodies. The plasma viral load was examined in a new specimen using the same technique (HIV Quantiplex, Chiron, Madrid, Spain) and again it gave a positive result of 5120 HIV RNA copies/ml.
Since sporadic cases of HIV-1 infection in the absence of specific antibodies have been reported in the literature [1-4], the presence of several HIV genomic regions (gag, env) in the child's plasma was examined using the PCR technique. Negative results were obtained in all instances. Furthermore, p24 antigenaemia was also negative, and CD4+ lymphocyte counts of the child and his parents were in the normal range. A suspicious false-positive viral load result becomes the sole explanation of this controversy.
Since viral load tests have been approved for the quantification of viraemia in already known HIV-seropositive individuals, we were interested to know their specificity. For this purpose, we selected 20 healthy volunteers, all of whom yielded negative results for HIV antibodies using different screening tests. Plasma from all of them were analysed by three different currently available HIV viral load tests: branched DNA (bDNA) signal amplification assay (Chiron), nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) Nuclisens (Organon Teknika, Barcelona, Spain), and Ultradirect reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR Monitor (Roche, Madrid, Spain). The detection limits of these assays are 500, 40 and 20 HIV RNA copies/ml, respectively. Moreover, we used two different HIV-1 Monitor kits (Roche, Madrid, Spain), one using primers exclusively designed for recognizing HIV-1 subtype B and another with non-B primers
In summary, two samples yielded positive results by the bDNA assay, with values of 2020 and 10 620 HIV RNA copies/ml. Another two specimens yielded false-positive results by the NASBA Nuclisens, with values of 150 and 480 HIV RNA copies/ml. Finally, one of the 20 samples was interpreted as positive by the Ultradirect RT-PCR Monitor assay, with a value of 73 HIV RNA copies/ml. Moreover, using the Monitor test with non-B primers, up to four of the 20 samples yielded positive values, ranging from 48 to 253 HIV RNA copies/ml. Results were reproduced in more than half of tested specimens for which plasma volumes were enough for repeat testing. The experiments were all performed by a single well-trained laboratory technician. Furthermore, controls run during the study excluded contamination as a source of false-positive results.
Short fragments of cellular RNA can be misleading, being recognized or interfering with the amplification systems used by the different quantification methods. Targeting other nucleic acid sequences could lead to the amplification of background, providing false-positive results, usually with low values, as it was seen in our cases.
Our data support the notion that viral load quantification methods must be used for monitoring plasma HIV-1 RNA levels in patients already known to be HIV-infected. Since their specificity is not well known these tests must not be used for diagnostic purposes (as has been suggested by others [7],substituting the well-probed serological methods.
Originally posted by Danbones
Right in you quote it says they are not testing for the virus
as I said.
Thats a trace sign of the "virus" not a test for the virus.
there is no virus.
Any of a group of viruses that, unlike most other viruses and all cellular organisms, carry their genetic blueprint in the form of RNA. Retroviruses are responsible for some cancers and viral infections of animals, and they cause at least one type of human cancer. The retrovirus HIV is the cause of AIDS in humans. The name signifies that they use RNA to synthesize DNA, the reverse of the usual cell process. This process makes it possible for genetic material from a retrovirus to enter and become a permanent part of the genes of an infected cell.
Originally posted by 2weird2live2rare2die
i believe it is man made as well. a lot of disinformation up in this thread. obviously some african didn't catch a monkey and f*** it. monkeys are about eighty to a hundred pounds of muscles, teeth, and jaws. and they don't want to be f***ed by us.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
This is the opening paragraph to an article published in the Journal of International AIDS Society titled:
False positives for HIV using commercial viral quantification.
and it is beginning to look like you also make your money in this field.
Originally posted by BBC The1
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
I think i saw that to, based on the research of E. Hooper
Found a link to the documentary "The origin"
freedocumentaries.org...
"The River, which proposed the hypothesis that AIDS might be iatrogenic (caused by physicians), and that scientists might have unwittingly started the pandemic through an experimental oral polio vaccine (OPV) administered in central Africa in the 1950s"
www.aidsorigins.com...
Raises some interresting questions, when he keeps getting flamed over his theory ?
"Hooper continues to promote the hypothesis on his website, aidsorigins.com, where he criticizes the research and conduct of many of the scientists involved in the investigation and alleges a Conspiracy to silence the hypothesis"
en.wikipedia.org...
Oh the C word
Originally posted by nataylor
These people creating viruses for population control must be utterly incompetent. The world population has gone from 4.1 billion in 1975 to 6.9 billion today. That's not a very good track record of controlling the population.
You don't think the times have changed approximately halfway through the research timeline?
Earlier this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control proposed altering its definition of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to include those with 200 or fewer CD4 cells. That proposal, scheduled to take effect April 1, 1992, would dramatically increase the number of Americans officially considered as having AIDS. The previous definition relied on a list of specific opportunistic infections, tumors, or itemized manifestations of HIV disease. While eventually the definition of AIDS should be replaced with a definition of HIV disease--which would include all those who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus--the CDC proposal would be a useful stopgap measure. It would provide access to needed treatments such as AZT to thousands of men and women who now are excluded from reimbursement systems including private health insurance and Medicaid.