Serious Adverse Events by Celia Farber

Author:Celia Farber [Farber, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States - 20th Century, History: American, General, Medical / Nursing, AIDS & HIV, Diseases - AIDS & HIV, History, History / United States / 20th Century, AIDS (Disease)
Publisher: Absolute Classics
Published: 2006-06-30T21:00:00+00:00

Serious Adverse Events

An Uncensored History of AIDS

Western Blot test, and some of those failed to react on a repeat Western Blot. The point is that all 12,000 would have been called "HIV infected" in Africa but very few would have been called that in the West.

In another disturbing study, HIV-free mice tested positive for HIV when they were injected with cells from other HIV-free mice.

One quarter of HIV-free blood donors in the West were found to have reactive bands on the HIV Western Blot test. The HIV Reference Laboratory admitted to Turner and Eleopoulis, when pressed, that these were caused by cross-reacting non-HIV antibodies. In a 1997 interview in the now defunct AIDS journal Continuum, Turner explained: "Now, the way you get your cross-reacting, non-HIV induced antibodies is to give your immune system a few belts. And the more belts, and the more closely spaced, the more likely a person tested will have cross reacting antibodies. But we know in places like Africa this kind of thing is happening all the time. And it happens across all the AIDS risk groups. The very people you're testing for HIV are those with the greatest chance of non-specifically induced antibodies. So we have this grotesque paradox. One quarter of pristine, well-fed Australian blood donors have one or more HIV Western Blot bands, and that might include four bands, but they're not infected with HIV. But in Africa, poverty stricken, malnourished, Ugandan subsistence farmers with malaria or tuberculosis, or repeated attacks of dysentery, have buckets of cross reacting antibodies but if they've got just two bands on the Western Blot, not four, they are infected with HIV. Do you know anyone who can explain this?"

Whether or not people ought to submit to taking an "AIDS test" has long been the subject of furious debate. The impact on the life or lives of the people who do take the test—if it comes

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