A Recent WHO report, over Two Decades After the Global AIDS Epidemic began, Shows no Signs of AIDS Abating - Why? asks Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD

Although it is currently difficult to find anyone who openly questions HIV as the cause of AIDS, a fast growing number of scientists express their doubts privately. Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, a recent lead author in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, here questions whether HIV is a virus.

(PRWEB) June 18, 2005 -- Global AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating; highest number of HIV infections and deaths ever Rapid Increases in Newer HIV Epidemics in Asia and Eastern Europe

Worldwide, an estimated five million people had became infected with HIV and 3 million died that year alone - the highest ever. On June 1st 2005, UNAIDS added to this by releasing that actually women and girls were 2.5 times more likely to get HIV than their male counterparts.

"It is important to remember the history here." Said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD. "By 1979 doctors in Manhattan began to notice a strange new disease killing what had been, up to then, healthy gay men. As reports mounted, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was forced to circulate similar notices of homosexual men in New York and Los Angeles with a weakened immune system dying from heretofore rare causes. Unnoticed was an earlier rise in the New York infection rate for tuberculosis, which, from the onset, the new epidemic emulated."

"Yet we are still led to believe that we are fortunate that viruses like HIV, called retroviruses, only discovered in the 1970s, were uncovered just in time to label them the culprit in a killer AIDS epidemic," said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD. "Lucky that two 'HIV's' were discovered in rapid succession, and that the technology and theory to link AIDS to the HIV retrovirus was fully in place, for the first time in history, only a few years prior to the recognition of the AIDS epidemic."

"Lucky?" He asked. "As the 20th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases passed us by, AIDS has infected nearly 80 million people of which almost 22 million, including nearly half-a-million Americans have died. Yet the prospects for a cure or vaccine are as remote as they were 2 decades ago."

Of Broxmeyer's well-documented, peer-reviewed medical publication [Is AIDS really caused by a virus? Medical Hypotheses (2003) 60(5), 671-688 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. and accompanying book [AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Never admitted, Professor Patrick Igbigbi, current Head of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Malawi said: "I am of the opinion that this book may offer a solution to the mystery surrounding the AIDS pandemic with regards to a possible vaccine or cure for AIDS in the near future." Igbigbi, with 47 peer-reviewed publications of his own, in addition to being a respected reviewer for many international journals, is in a position to know.

"'HIV', generally considered to cause AIDS today, is a 'retrovirus'," said Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, "but at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, in 1988, researchers led by A.M. al-Sumidaie, found a retrovirus in 97% of the women they tested for breast cancer."

"Did this finding mean" asked Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, "that breast cancer was also caused by a retrovirus such as HIV? Certainly not. Al-Sumidaie knew very well as a viral researcher that he could take cells from a patient's body and coax out a lot of harmless retroviruses to which a patient had been exposed. When in the retroviral business, you detected retroviruses and over the years it had been done in multiple sclerosis, sarcomas and leukemias. Yet little more evidence than al-Sumidaie had in front of him was available when HIV was called the probable cause of AIDS."

"Most people blindly accept HIV as the cause of AIDS, quickly forgetting that AIDS was at various times sworn to be caused by other viruses such as the Bar-Epstein Virus, the cytomegalovirus and a virus called HTLV-1. Scientists were certain that a virus was behind Lyme's disease, Mycoplasma pneumonia, and Legionnaires' disease as well before their respective bacteria were found." pointed out Lawrence Broxmeyer MD.

The history of retroviruses mirrored cancer research. Peyton Rous was credited with the discovery and isolation of the first retrovirus. By 1911, Rous wanted to know why if one chicken got cancer, others followed. Rous, who reproduced the tumor at will in Plymouth Rock fowls, favored a bacterial cause over a filterable virus. However, it was a question that he never definitely answered. By 1933 Shope reported a viral tumor in cottontail rabbits. Bittner reported on a milk-born mouse breast cancer attributed to still another virus.

"These virologists, who claimed that cancer was viral, were soon challenged by another group which did careful, peer-reviewed research demonstrating that the retroviruses in Rous, Bittner and Shope tumors were actually filterable forms of mycobacterial-like bacteria of the Actinomycetales," said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD. "Tuberculosis-like, these 'viruses' stained with acid fast dyes; readily passed through a filter, but actually were a class of bacteria having many of the characteristics of the mycobacteria such as tuberculosis. Such forms, as early as 1910 were known, in certain circles, as 'the TB virus'."

"This work, spearheaded by physician-researcher Virginia Livingston MD, questioned the very existence of retroviruses as agents of serious disease and the retrovirologists did not like it. A scientific life-and-death cancer struggle ensued," continued Lawrence Broxmeyer MD.

"It was to Livingston's solid disadvantage that President Richard Nixon's War on Cancer soon became controlled by virologists, retrovirologists and immunologists Once entrenched, they would remain at the helm even as, incredibly, their failed cancer attempts now turned towards finding a viral cause for AIDS."

"By 1991, Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, almost got booed off
a 1991 San Francisco podium at the Sixth International AIDS conference for endorsing mycoplasma, a bacteria, as a necessary cofactor for the AIDS virus to become fatal. This 'cofactor' theory was, in effect, Montagnier's way of admitting that HIV, the virus he had discovered, wasn't virulent enough in itself to even approach what happened in AIDS," added Lawrence Broxmeyer MD.

"Montagnier and Lemaitre published that cells cultured with 'HIV', which normally died, grew well in the presence of two antibiotics, minocycline and doxycycline. Antibiotics do not affect viruses, so it was not working against an HIV virus - it was a bacteria. Montagnier decided that that bacteria was probably mycoplasma. He had done so, unaware of the fact that the two particular antibiotics he was using also had activity against Livingston's atypical tuberculosis-like mycobacteria."

Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, finds many other inconsistencies in the present theory that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus as well.

"It was in Africa that those who hailed HIV as the cause of AIDS faced their first and most serious challenge," he said, "over extremely suspicious coincidences. Not only were over 65% of African AIDS patients not HIV-positive according to a Lancet article published on Oct. 17, 1992, but, of those that tested positive, data suggested that the antigens in HIV-1 Elisa and Western Blots, originally claimed to belong solely to HIV, were cross-reacting with TB and the mycobacteria."

Mycobacteria such as TB and fowl TB are the leading cause of infectious disease in AIDS.

"Important to the basic mechanism of AIDS is the destruction of CD4 cells, white blood cells called macrophages which are key to body defenses. Yet Papadopulos-Eleopulos makes clear that retroviruses such as HIV were never known to kill cells. It was the one thing that retro virologists always knew and agreed with. Therefore, she asked, how could HIV kill CD4 cells? Virologists Duesberg and Levy agreed. On the other hand, virulent TB and the mycobacterium can and do kill CD4 cells directly," said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD.

"Even with regards to anti-retroviral HIV therapy, which to be sure, from its onset was palliative and has extended life, questions remain. With such therapy, in many cases, the CD4+ count is partially restored and supposedly therefore the necessity for continuing drugs specifically against M. avium or fowl tuberculosis, often present in AIDS. But M. avium infection rebounds when these anti-HIV drugs are stopped or fail. Furthermore, these antiretroviral drugs aren't the only agents which can restore a low AIDS CD4 count. This restoration was also documented in AIDS patients given anti-TB antibiotics, as in John's study where a CD4 counts as low as 89/ll climbed to 760/ll."

"In truth, the entire story has not been nearly unraveled regarding America's potent antiretroviral drugs. Regush mentions that the types of antiviral drugs used in 'cocktails' 'have antimicrobial properties that could, to varying degrees, target other infections that are common to AIDS'. FDA approval for any of these agents did not require information as to whether they were bactericidal."

"Furthermore," said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, "although tuberculosis was rarely thought of as a sexually transmitted disease, the potential for this had always existed. In the presence of prostatitis, it may be transmitted through the semen. By 1972, five years before gays started dying in the US, 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 probably 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. Even in syphilis at its most infectious stage, successful transmission in humans was possible only in 30% of contacts."

"Multi-drug-resistant strains always had the potential to render tuberculosis and Avium tuberculosis once again incurable infections." Broxmeyer concluded. "That this happened, and how new and virulent strains of mycobacteria and their viral-like forms found entry first into the human blood pool and then an enhanced portal of sexual transmission in the disease eventually called AIDS should come as a surprise to no one."

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