Showing posts with label Chimps and AIDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chimps and AIDS. Show all posts

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago


By  and Daniel Halperin www.washingtonpost.com

Quoting: Terry Michael from an interview on the Robert Scott Bell Show, journalist and teacher, joins the crew to discuss a ‘new’ (old) ‘theory’, now being pushed by the liberal ‘illiterati’ to blame ‘white colonialism’ for the spread of AIDS… in the 1800s! Yes, according to Craig Timberg, HIV true-believer, HIV (which cannot be tested for, and which does not cause immune deficiency), was in existence before the Spanish Flu of 1918! (I guess everyone was too busy to notice). He then goes back to the ‘back to Africa’ myth of “HIV,” while ignoring the complex and immune-damaging realities of those who got “GRID” (later renamed AIDS), in the early 1980s. Terry takes it apart, and on the way we’ll touch on the CDC’s new pet projects – Bird, Pig, Dog, Cat and Bat Flu, and Hepatitis C. Is Hepatitis C the new HIV?

We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed the course of history.
We now know where the epidemic began: a small patch of dense forest in southeastern Cameroon. We know when: within a couple of decades on either side of 1900. We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp’s blood into the hunter’s body, probably through a cut during butchering.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

CHIMPS INFECTED WITH HIV FREED – The Catch 22 in HIV Infection


by Beldeu Singh

It was big news in the mainstream media. A group of Chimpanzees had been locked up in metal cages for 30 years. They were kept by a firm that bought them that had the aim to find a vaccine to combat AIDS. The chimps were thought to be natural subjects because chimps share 99 per cent of the genome of man. Several years ago, the giant American pharmaceutical company Baxter took over the Austrian laboratory, and immediately announced it had no intention of continuing the testing program. “They suffered terrible cruelties in the years that followed, including being injected with the HIV virus. Hooked up to machines and pumped full of chemicals, they were truly prisoners of utter despair. With no stimulation, no nurturing love and no hope, many were driven to the brink of madness and beyond.”

What made the news and turned it into headlines? “Their ordeal finally ended on Tuesday when the 38 surviving chimps were released into a £3million sanctuary in Austria, allowing them to feel the nurturing contact of their fellow chimps after years of being separated by bars and bullet-proof glass.” Certainly a celebration but they missed the real news created by the laboratory to find a vaccine fir AIDS by injecting the so called HIV into the chimps but the chimps did not develop full-blown AIDS and they failed to find the vaccine. The failure to find a vaccine ought, rightly, to be the correct and the more exciting headline.
The news report said that “some chimpanzees were infected with the HIV virus. Of course, they became HIV positive. But none of them, not here in Austria or anywhere else in the world, developed full-blown Aids. Therefore, the program was useless. It achieved absolutely nothing.”
To get to the bottom of the matter embedded in this news, one has to grasp a number of issues as follows:-
  1. Why Dr. Gallo uses supernatants and not isolates?
  2. How do you do a clinical study comprising AIDS patients and HIV infection when the test kits carry a disclaimer stating that the test kits cannot be used to diagnose and treat AIDS and to use a confirmatory test?
  3. Why there are a large number of false positives with tests using these test kits, including people recovering from malaria and flu?
  4. Why do the HIV test kits test for p24, the significance of which is not known?
  5. What is the real role of gp120 in the infection process and in immune-suppression?
  6. Why give toxic drugs as medication to AIDs patients that suppress the immune system or are “toxic by inhalation” and “can cause the same symptoms as AIDS”?
  7. What is the treatment for drug-induced AIDS? More of the toxic medication?
  8. If AIDS is caused by a virus, why is there a latency period?

Monday, September 12, 2011

Chimps caged for 30 years and injected with HIV in cruel experiments finally feel the sun on their faces again -Dailymail.com

..."The aim of the firm that bought them was to find a vaccine to combat Aids. Because chimps share  99per cent of the gene code of man, they seemed natural subjects for study."

..."Some chimpanzees were infected with the HIV virus. Of course, they became HIV positive. But none of them, not here in Austria or anywhere else in the world, developed full-blown Aids. Therefore, the programme was useless. It achieved absolutely nothing.’"


By ALLAN HALL - dailymail.co.uk
Like prisoners emerging from a lifetime behind bars, a group of chimpanzees step blinking into the sunlight with what appears for all the world to be a wave and a smile.