-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:13 AM >From this morning's InfoBeat: ======= *** HIV reports with names urged ATLANTA (AP) - The government issued new guidelines Thursday instructing states to collect data on HIV cases with patient names or identifying codes attached - a measure that has alarmed some AIDS activists. The guidelines are the latest step in an effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track where and how the AIDS virus is spreading. The CDC estimates that up to 900,000 Americans are living with HIV, and about 297,000 of them actually have AIDS. The CDC began recommending in 1997 that states tally HIV cases as well AIDS cases. States had been reporting AIDS cases by patient name since 1981. The new guidelines released Thursday spell out how states should report HIV cases as well. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562526293-714 ======= However: It was reported in 1996, that there are 65 known "false positive triggers" for HIV tests -- so how is it possible to know that "900,000 Americans are living with HIV", or to gain any useful knowledge by now attaching names to dubious test results? (The 65 false positive triggering conditions are included below.) For an alternative view of HIV and AIDS, from one who's been there, see: http://www.aliveandwell.org (formerly HEAL-LA) For a graph depicting the progression of the "AIDS epidemic" (which evidently began to decline by 1997), see: http://www.aidsinfobbs.org Additional informative links at: http://www.wellnow.com/there/aids.html ======= [(c) Sept 1996 "Zenger's", reprinted in "Continuum" Sept/Oct 1996; compiled by Christine Johnson of HEAL Los Angeles and provided by her for reposting. Sixty-four references accompany the printed list.] ===================================================================== Factors Known to Cause False-Positive HIV Antibody Test Results ===================================================================== Anti-carbohydrate antibodies Malignant neoplasms (cancers) Naturally-occurring antibodies Alcoholic hepatitis/alcoholic Passive immunization; receipt of liver disease gammaglobulin or immune globulin Primary sclerosing cholangitis (as prophylaxis against infection Hepatitis which contains antibodies) "Sticky" blood (in Africans) Leprosy Antibodies with a high affinity Tuberculosis for polystyrene (used in Mycobacterium avium test kits) Systemic lupus erythematosus Blood transfusions, multiple Renal (kidney) failure blood transfusions Hemodialysis/renal failure Multiple myeloma Alpha interferon therapy in HLA antibodies (to Class I and II hemodialysis patients leukocyte antigens) Flu Anti-smooth muscle antibody Flu vaccination Anti-parietal cell antibody Herpes simplex I Anti-hepatitis A IgM (antibody) Herpes simplex II Anti-Hbc IgM Upper respiratory tract infection Administration of human immuno- (cold or flu) globulin preparations pooled Recent viral infection or exposure before 1985 to viral vaccines Haemophilia Pregnancy in multiparous women Haemotologic malignant disorders/ Malaria lymphoma High levels of circulating immune Primary biliary cirrhosis complexes Stevens-Johnson syndrome Hypergammaglobulinemia (high Q-fever with associated hepatitis levels of antibodies) Heat-treated specimens False positives on other tests, Lipemic serum (blood with high including RPR (rapid plasma levels of fat or lipids) reagent) test for syphilis Haemolyzed serum (blood where Rheumatoid arthritis haemoglobin is separated from Hepatitis B vaccination the red cells) Tetanus vaccination Hyperbilirubinemia Organ transplantation Globulins produced during polyclonal Renal transplantation gammopathies (which are seen in Anti-lymphocyte antibodies AIDS risk groups) Anti-collagen antibodies (found Healthy individuals as a result of in gay men, haemophiliacs, poorly-understood cross-reactions Africans of both sexes and Normal human ribonucleoproteins people with leprosy) Other retroviruses Serum-positive for rheumatoid Anti-mitochondrial antibodies factor, antinuclear antibody Anti-nuclear antibodies (both found in rheumatoid arthritis Anti-microsomal antibodies and other autoantibodies [sic]) T-cell leukocyte antigen Autoimmune diseases -- antibodies Systemic lupus erythematosus, Proteins on the filter paper scleroderma, connective tissue Epstein-Barr virus disease, dermatomyositis Visceral leishmaniasis Acute viral infections, DNA Receptive anal sex viral infections ======= -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com --------------------------------------------------------- Well Now Health Information Service Box 15524 Atlanta Georgia [30333] eFax: (419) 793-3043 --------------------------------------------------------- "There's nothing left in the world to prove. 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