Ode Coyote wrote:

> Quaestion:  Has anyone developed AIDS and not had the virus? Is the virus
> transmitted via exchange of body fluids?

>From what I have read, about 50% of AIDs patients test negative for HIV.

>
>  If not, the common denominator would be the virus regardless of the actual
> cause of AIDS.

It is not a common denominator at all. There are about a dozen other viruses and
diseases that also accompany AIDS with as high a percentage rate.

>
>  Where and how did all those people in rural Africa get exposed to benzene?

I said in another message that AIDS is caused by destruction of the Immnune 
system
from toxins or parasites (the below message was referring to the gay epidemic in
the US only).  In the other message I said that in America one of the big causes
is benzene ( http://www.sumeria.net/aids/lubejob.html ), and in Africa it is 
from
parasites.  You don't need both, or in fact either, anything that destroys the
immune system will cause AIDS, including AZT (
http://www.webaxs.net/~noel/lostlink/azt1.html
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/data/hkslahprotease.htm
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/newsl/azt.html
http://aliveandwell-eugene.dreamhost.com/aidsgate/ ), which it appears alone
caused about 50% of the deaths from AIDs prior to 1997.

>
> By that line of reasoning, AIDS should be more pandemic in developed
> countries and it is not.
>

Things like parasites devastate the immune system, and cause AIDS. That 
indicates
that Africa should be a high rate country and it is.  Benzene devastates the
immune system, and that indicates that gay males which prefer a benzene 
containing
lubricant should be at risk, and they are. All things that destroy the immune
system cannot be lumped into to one chemical - benzene, and it just isn't so.
There are many things that can destroy the immune system, it just happens that 
HIV
doesn't appear to be one of them.  For Africa it is parasites, for gay men and 
the
Hatian immigrants it was Benzene, and for those who happen to get a positive 
test
for HIV it is AZT.  There are lots of other things as well.  To cure AIDS 
requires
one to eliminate what is destroying the immune system, be it chemical toxins or
parasites.

That said it is possible that HIV could ring the death toll.  As an 
opportunistic
pathogen, it is no different than lots of other opportunistic pathogens that
normally do not cause disease, but if your immune system is crippled, can kill
you.

Marshall


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