Linkage and independence of AIDS and kaposi disease: The interaction of human immunodeficiency virus and some coagents

Eggers, Hans J.; Weyer, Jürgen

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“…This view is incontrovertible" (Goudsmit, 1992). Likewise, the epidemiologists Eggers and Weyer conclude that "the spread of AIDS does not behave like the spread of a disease that is caused by a single sexually transmitted agent" (Eggers and Weyer, 1991) and hence have "simulated a cofactor [that] cannot be identified with any known infectious agent" (Weyer and Eggers, 1990). Anderson and May (1992) had to invent "assortative scenarios" for different AIDS risk groups to reconcile AIDS with infectious disease.…”

Section: Aids Not Compatible With Infectious Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These findings argue against a sexually transmitted cause, because sexual transmission predicts a much higher AIDS risk for homosexuals with hundreds of sexual partners than for intravenous drug users (Section 4) (Weyer and Eggers, 1990;Eggers and Weyer, 1991). Indeed, numerous controlled studies have indicated that the morbidity and mor-tality of intravenous drug users is independent of HIV (Sections 4.4, 4.5 and 4.7).…”

Section: Annual Aids Risks Of Different Hiv-infected Risk Groups Incmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Montagnier (Goldsmith, 1990;Lemaitre et al, 1990;Balter, 1991) and Lo (Lo et al, 1991) have proposed mycoplasmas that were discovered in their laboratories; Gallo has proposed two viruses, herpes virus-6 and HTLV-I, which were both discovered in his laboratory (Cotton, 1990;Gallo, 1990Gallo, , 1991Lusso et al, 1991). Others have proposed cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus (Quinn et al, 1987;Evans, 1989a;Root-Bernstein, 1990c), "age" (Evans, 1989a;Goedert et al, 1989;Weiss and Jaffe, 1990; Biggar and the International Registry of Seroconverters, 1990), unidentified "coagents" (Weyer and Eggers, 1990;Eggers and Weyer, 1991), "clinical illness promotion fac-tors" (Evans, 1989b(Evans, , 1992 and even "pre-existing immune abnormalities" (Ludlam et al, 1985;Marion et al, 1989;Ludlam, 1992) as cofactors of HIV.…”

Section: Hiv To Depend On Cofactors For Aidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…AIDS of both risk groups followed closely the above listed drug-use statistics during the last 15 years, with increases in 1987 that corresponded to the expanded AIDS definition (Centers for Disease Control, 1987) and the introduction of AZT treatment. By contrast a sexually transmitted AIDS would have spread much faster among homosexuals than among intravenous drug users (Weyer and Eggers, 1990;Eggers and Weyer, 1991). The apparent exponential spread of AIDS during the period from 1984 to 1987 (Heyward and Curran, 1988;Mann et al, 1988;Weyer and Eggers, 1990) probably reflected an exponential spread of "AIDS testing," which resulted in an exponential spread of AIDS diagnoses for drug diseases (Section 4.2).…”

Section: Drug-aids Hypothesis Correctly Predicts the Epidemiology Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aids acquired by drug consumption and other noncontagious risk factors

Duesberg

1992

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

125

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The hypothesis that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a new, sexually transmitted virus that causes AIDS has been entirely unproductive in terms of public health benefits. Moreover, it fails to predict the epidemiology of AIDS, the annual AIDS risk and the very heterogeneous AIDS diseases of infected persons. The correct hypothesis must explain why: (1) AIDS includes 25 previously known diseases and two clinically and epidemiologically very different epidemics, one in America and Europe, the other in Africa; (2) almost all American (90%) and European (86%) AIDS patients are males over the age of 20, while African AIDS affects both sexes equally; (3) the annual AIDS risks of infected babies, intravenous drug users, homosexuals who use aphrodisiacs, hemophiliacs and Africans vary over 100-fold; (4) many AIDS patients have diseases that do not depend on immunodeficiency, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, dementia and wasting; (5) the AIDS diseases of Americans (97%) and Europeans (87%) are predetermined by prior health risks, including long-term consumption of illicit recreational drugs, the antiviral drug AZT and congenital deficiencies like hemophilia, and those of Africans are Africa-specific. Both negative and positive evidence shows that AIDS is not infectious: (1) the virus hypothesis fails all conventional criteria of causation; (2) over 100-fold different AIDS risks in different risk groups show that HIV is not sufficient for AIDS; (3) AIDS is only 'acquired,' if at all, years after HIV is neutralized by antibodies; (4) AIDS is new but HIV is a long-established, perinatally transmitted retrovirus; (5) alternative explanations disprove all assumptions and anecdotal cases cited in support of the virus hypothesis; (6) all AIDS-defining diseases occur in matched risk groups, at the same rate, in the absence of HIV; (7) there is no common, active microbe in all AIDS patients; (8) AIDS manifests in unpredictable and unrelated diseases; and (9) it does not spread randomly between the sexes in America and Europe. Based on numerous data documenting that drugs are necessary for HIV-positives and sufficient for HIV-negatives to develop AIDS diseases, it is proposed that all American/European AIDS diseases, that exceed their normal background, result from recreational and anti-HIV drugs. African AIDS is proposed to result from protein malnutrition, poor sanitation and subsequent parasitic infections. This hypothesis resolves all paradoxes of the virus-AIDS hypothesis. It is epidemiologically and experimentally testable and provides a rational basis for AIDS control.

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Section: Aids Not Compatible With Infectious Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Annual Aids Risks Of Different Hiv-infected Risk Groups Incmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hiv To Depend On Cofactors For Aidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Drug-aids Hypothesis Correctly Predicts the Epidemiology Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aids acquired by drug consumption and other noncontagious risk factors

Duesberg

1992

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

125

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“…This view is incontrovertible' [50]. More specifically, the epidemiologists Egger and Weyer [51] state that 'the spread of AIDS does not behave like the spread of a disease that is caused by a single sexually transmitted agent'. To reconcile AIDS with infectious dis ease they 'simulated a cofactor [that] cannot be identified with any known infectious agent' [52], The epidemiol ogists Anderson and May [53] had to invent 'assortative scenarios' for different AIDS risk groups to match AIDS with infectious disease.…”

Section: Aids Fails All Criteria Of Infectious Diseasementioning

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Infectious AIDS – Stretching the Germ Theory Beyond Its Limits

Duesberg

1994

Int Arch Allergy Immunol

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The hypothesis that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS was advanced in 1984, based only on circumstantial evidence. To this date, the primary evidence are correlations between the presence of antibody against HIV and AIDS. But these correlations are biased by proponents of the HIV hypothesis in favour of HIV. They ignore HIV-free AIDS and they base correlations on selected studies because there are no national HIV-AIDS statistics. The HIV-AIDS hypothesis has made the following predictions: (I) AIDS would ‘explode’ from the original risk groups into the general population via sexual transmission of HIV (2) Health care workers would contract AIDS from their patients, scientists from propagating HIV, and prostitutes from their clients. (3) The 150 chimpanzees that have been experimentally inoculated with HIV, and the 15,000 American hemophiliacs who have been iatrogenically inoculated before 1984, would develop AIDS. (4) Antiviral immunity and vaccines would protect against AIDS. (5) HIV would cause AIDS by killing T-cells. (6) AIDS would occur only in people infected by HIV. But none of these predictions proved to be correct. Recent studies show that HIV is a passenger virus instead of the cause of AIDS: (1) AIDS occurs at unpredictable intervals after infection; (2) HIV may be active, passive, or totally absent from otherwise identical AIDS cases. Indeed, AIDS does not meet one of the classical criteriy of infectious disease: (1) Equal distribution between the sexes; (2) disease following infection within days or weeks, the time microbes take to become either immunogenic or pathogenic or both; (3) the presence of a common active microbe. Therefore it is proposed that American and European AIDS is caused by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and the anti-HIV drug AZT This hypothesis is testable and provides a rational basis for AIDS control.

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