How To Reverse Immune Dysfunction. Positive Health News. New discoveries in
immune stimulation. Diet, botanicals, lipid and bio-oxidative protocols
available. New whole lemon/olive oil drink reverses swollen lymph nodes in
7 days, neuropathy in 2 weeks and wasting syndrome. Weight gain of 1 to 3 lbs.
per week being reported. To access articles, contact http://www.execpc.com/~keephope
on the web or write to Keep Hope Alive, PO Box 27041, Wesrt Allis, WI 53227
for a copy of the printed articls. Ask for Positive Health News, No 8.
from Mark Konlee

Peter Duesberg, Brian Ellison and their book were featured on the
Far-Right-wing shortwave radio show, "Radio Free America", which is
broadcast on WWCR (World-Wide Christian Radio) 5.065Mhz at 11pm EST
yesterday! This station is the backbone of the Far-Right militia movement
in the USA.

The show is sponsored by Liberty Lobby and the SPOTLIGHT magazine. Liberty
Lobby is an anti-semetic rag that believes that the Holocaust never happened.
The show’s host, Tom Valentine, is a outspoken homophobe and supports Pat
Buchannan for president.
**************************************************************
-James M. Scutero, original proponent of misc.health.aids
 misc.health.aids WWW homepage: http://www.panix.com/~jscutero

Barnett SW; Murthy KK; Herndier BG; Levy JA
An AIDS-like condition induced in baboons by HIV-2.
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San
Francisco 94143.
Science 1994 Oct 28;266(5185):642-6

Abstract:

Six baboons (papio cynocephalus) were intravenously inoculated with the
human immunodeficiency virus-type 2 (HIV-2) strain HIV-2UC2. All
seroconverted within 6 weeks after inoculation; five animals became
persistently infected. Four developed lymphadenopathy, and three of the
animals had CD4+ T cell loss within 18 to 24 months after inoculation.
One of these baboons, showing severe clinical symptoms, showed at
necropsy widespread dissemination of virus with follicular depletion in
the lymph nodes, extensive fibromatosis involving lymphoid and
nonlymphoid tissues, and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis. Another
animal is cachectic and exhibited lymphoid follicular lysis and fibrous
skin lesions. Other baboons inoculated with a second strain, HIV-2UC14,
have shown evidence of persistent infection. HIV-2 infection of baboons
provides a valuable animal model for studying HIV persistence and
pathogenesis and for evaluating approaches to antiviral therapies.
******************************************************************
-James M. Scutero, original proponent of misc.health.aids
 misc.health.aids WWW homepage: http://www.panix.com/~jscutero

Acupressure: Can It Help Your Condition?  
     The Acu-Ki Institute is gathering data to answer the above question.
We are a non-profit organization that provides information, which allows
individuals to use acupressure for their conditions.  Our goal is to make
this knowledge available to all who are interested.  We are also gathering
data about your results in order to continue to document what works best
for different kinds of problems.  While we do not diagnose or treat your
condition, we provide information, tools, others’ results, research data
and will assist you in various ways in your introduction to acupressure.  
     The information we gather here will be used for research reports and
to begin acupressure programs in schools, businesses, hospitals, health
care centers and doctors offices.  We have identified acupressure points
for over 3200 diseases and symptoms and want to know how these points work
for your condition.  Currently we are most interested in research with
people with conditions related to arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, aids,
and MS.  If you are interested send us your e-mail address.  We will mail
you information about acupressure, the points for your condition and how
you can participate.

Monte Cunningham
Acu-Ki Institute
Rt. 2, Box 292-BB
Mars Hill, NC. 28754

(
  This document is available on the World-Wide-Web.  
  See:  http://www.web-depot.com/~cott/press

  Also, see the Hemophilia Home Page:
  http://www.web-depot.com/hemophilia
)

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INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE RELEASES REPORT ON HIV & THE BLOOD SUPPLY
CITING REGULATORY BREAKDOWN DURING THE 1980′S

With the release of the National Academy Of Science, Institute Of
Medicine report entitled, HIV & The Blood Supply, An Analysis Of
Crisis Decision Making, we now have a clear view of the events
that resulted in the Hemophilia/Aids holocaust. Corporate
irresponsibility, regulatory failure, a lack of medical
independence and the indifference of the Reagan Administration
all played a significant part in the infection and devastation of
an entire community. The IOM report vividly demonstrates how
critical decisions were made based on economic concerns at the
expense of what was necessary to protect the public health. It
details the failure of the federal regulatory system to respond
In a timely fashion to what was a growing and alarming body of
evidence indicating that the causative agent for Aids was in fact
a blood borne pathogen.

The report shows that warnings from the Centers For Disease
Control, the federal agency tasked with acting as the nation’s
early warning system for threats to the public health, were
repeatedly ignored and discredited by the manufacturers of blood
products, the blood banking industry, the American Red Cross and
their regulators at the Food & Drug Administration.

It demonstrates that while the FDA possessed the statutory
authority to aggressively respond to the threat to the blood
supply, that they repeatedly chose the "least aggressive options
available therefore repeatedly missing opportunities contain the
growing epidemic. Their failure to aggressively recall unscreened
products resulted in a death sentence for thousands of persons
with hemophilia.

The report paints a picture of rampant conflict of interest
within the regulatory structure where key decisions with grave
impact on peoples very lives, were being made by those with a
significant interest in the business of blood. The report also
cites the FDA’s inability to take incremental steps that combined
could have greatly reduced the level of contamination.

The Institute Of Medicine makes a series of prospective
recommendations designed to clean-up the federal regulatory
structure. They include the creation of a national blood safety
council at the level of the HHS Secretary as well as federal
agencies ceasing to depend on the very entities they regulate for
data analysis and decision making modeling. The report also
stresses the absolute need for the participation of the affected
communities such as the users of blood and blood products.

This morning Secretary Shalala issued a statement supporting the
findings and recommendations of the IOM report. However according
to Shalala, HHS has already been acting on many of those
recommendations. We have yet to see any action toward change from
Secretary Shalala and we intend to continue to pressure HHS not
only to implement the IOM recommendations but to take all actions
available to ensure that the highest degree of safety is
maintained in this nation’s blood supply.

The report also cites the need for compensation funds to be
established for those harmed in situations like the HIV
contamination of the blood supply. The Committee Of Ten Thousand
has been working with Representative Porter Goss, R-Florida, for
the passage of HR 1023, The Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Act Of
1995, introduced by Goss in February of this year.

We applaud the work of the IOM in tackling this difficult and
controversial issue in an in-depth fashion. We know must take
this report to the American people, not only so they understand
what occurred during the 1980’3 but also to inform them that many
of the problems that resulted in the Hemophilia holocaust
continue unabated today. We must alter the business of blood if
we are to ensure a safe blood supply for the American people.
—
Michael Davon                       617-227-7735 Tel
Da…@Web-Depot.Com                 617-720-2607 Fax
http://www.web-depot.com/~davon

Still a lot of ignorance in the world:

From the Trenton Times, July 13, 1995:

POSTMAN WON’T DELIVER

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Not long after Pat and Fred Grounds moved
into their new home, they noticed they weren’t gettig any mail.
Only after more than a week and many phone calls did the post
office tell them the truth: Their mailman was afraid of catching
AIDS from them. Tim Snodgrass said he feared cutting himself on
the couple’s metal mail slot and touching envelopes and stamps
they had licked.

In discussing the role of the thymus in HIV disease, Fred Cline makes
the following statement about AZT…

F>and I believe that the majority of cases
F>are being created iatrogenically now with the prescribing of AZT.

This is certainly NOT the situation here in Europe where AZT use was
reserved for symptomatic persons or those with evidence of rapid,
severe and sustained loss of CD4 t-lymphocytes from the peripheral
blood. Evidence against an iatrogenic role for AZT in the aetiology of
AIDS can be found in a recent paper in The Lancet which followed 363
patients with AIDS for up to six years. The following data relating to
AZT use was found:
************************************************************************
*****
(extract from Table 1: Demographic characteristics of patient
population)

Zidovudine use          Number         Percentage
Never               72       21.2
At/after AIDS      150       44.1
Before AIDS        118       34.7
************************************************************************
******

This clearly shows that here in Europe, 65.3% of patients who
developed AIDS had never consumed AZT before the progression to
this diagnosis.

The authors also note that…

"Those patients who commenced zidovudine before having an initial
AIDS diagnosis had significantly lower CD4 counts (per mm3) at their
initial AIDS diagnosis (median 49, range 0-460) than those who
commenced zidovudine after their diagnosis (median 183, range 0-680,
p=0.0005, Wilcoxon). The median CD4 count at which zidovudine
treatment commenced, irrespective of whether this was before or after
an initial AIDS diagnosis, was 95 (range 0-640)."

This paper was an attempt at developing a staging system for clinical
AIDS patients and made the further comment on AZT…

"Further variables were added to the score to determine if their
addition
resulted in a score which more accurately reflected the risk of death,
but none was identified. In particular, use of zidovudine, included as a
time-dependent covariate to remove the bias that patients who lived
longest had more opportunity to receive zidovudine, did not lead to an
improved score."

Clearly this paper shows that AZT use in AIDS in general is non-
effective. We also know that AZT has a wide ranging toxic profile.
However, this data does NOT support the view that its use contributes
in some way to the development of AIDS.

Mocroft AJ, Johnson MA, et al. Staging system for clinical AIDS
patients. Lancet 1995. 346: 12-17.

Q>From: Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <qui…@philos.umass.edu>
Q>To: Discussion List <Rethinking_A…@family.hampshire.edu>
Q>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 19:00:44 -0400
Q>Subject: One moderator down…
Q>Organization: Postmodern Enterprises
Q>
Q>Just to let y’all know:  I’ve been rather unceremoniously expelled as
Q>moderator of the Rethinking AIDS List… at least if it’s to be run
Q>from family.hampshire.edu.  The site administrator apparently took to
Q>heart the nasty letters from Scutero and gang (largely condemning me
Q>by name), and disconnected the account without so much as a word of
Q>warning (and AFTER mirroring to misc.health.aids had stopped).  I
Q>assumed it was just technical difficulties until a couple days later
Q>when I got a nasty note from said administrator.  If anyone feels like
Q>expressing any feelings on this to the administrator,
Q>        Peter Couvares <pfcou…@amhux3.amherst.edu>,
Q>I can’t say I’d be too upset.
Q>
Q>Anyway, following the disconnection, one of my co-moderators wrote to
Q>the administrator characterizing the mirroring experiment in a manner
Q>not entirely favorable of me, and not entirely accurately.  Perhaps it
Q>was either misunderstanding or a rhetorical device (in either case I
Q>kinda would prefer I had been consulted in advance… but that’s no
Q>matter… and my fondest sentiments continue towards my now former
Q>co-moderators).  The result, in any event, was a restoration of the
Q>family account on the condition that I not serve as moderator.
Q>
Q>Overall it’s a dark cloud with a silver lining.  I’m very busy
Q>nowadays, and going out of town July 15-25 (and busy thereafter), so
Q>I’m quite happy to avoid the task of moderating/administering.
Q>However, given the somewhat erratic and irrational nature of the
Q>family administrator, it might be a good idea to think about moving
Q>the list to a more friendly site (I’m not saying this as moderator
Q>now, just as subscriber).  If anyone has computer resources with
Q>friendly administrators they’d like to volunteer… let the remaining
Q>moderators (or me also, if you wish) know.  Going back to
Q>moo…@oitunix.oit.umass.edu is possible, although I certainly can’t
Q>do anything about that until after the 25th at earliest.
Q>
Q>Yours, David Mertz…
Q>
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> At least to their credit they don’t
> advocate mandatory testing, which is advocated by a large variety of folk.

Actually, I am in favor of manditory testing all pregnant women.  Although I
am totally against using AZT in these women if they are HIV+, I believe that
this would be one way of obtaining some reasonably unbiased data concerning
the actual population distribution of HIV.  Since my talk yesterday, I have
been seriously thinking about how one might get at these numbers without
becoming overly invasive.  My first thought was manditory HIV screens when
the RH testing is done before marriage (is this being done?).  I mean, we
can keep running around saying that HIV is distributed according to Farr’s
law, and that the indemic rate for North America and Europe is between .1%
and .4% based on military testing, etc, but it would be nice to have
unbiased numbers for which regional distributions can be assessed.  It seems
clear to me after arguing with a virology based pathologist yesterday that
this thing is never going to be settled using biological arguments aimed at
demonstrating that HIV is a harmless old retrovirus.  I really believe that
the only convincing evidence that the sceptical side can produce which would
make a dent in the HIV+AIDS theory, to the point that the mainstream would
have to respond, would be to totally undermine the epidemiological argument
by producing unbiased estimates of the endemic rate of HIV in the everyday
American living next door.

John Rossi III

Acupressure: Can It Help Your Condition?  
     The Acu-Ki Institute is gathering data to answer the above question.
We are a non-profit organization that provides information, which allows
individuals to use acupressure for their conditions.  Our goal is to make
this knowledge available to all who are interested.  We are also gathering
data about your results in order to continue to document what works best
for different kinds of problems.  While we do not diagnose or treat your
condition, we provide information, tools, others’ results, research data
and will assist you in various ways in your introduction to acupressure.  
     The information we gather here will be used for research reports and
to begin acupressure programs in schools, businesses, hospitals, health
care centers and doctors offices.  We have identified acupressure points
for over 3200 diseases and symptoms and want to know how these points work
for your condition.  Currently we are most interested in research with
people with conditions related to arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, aids,
and MS.  If you are interested send us your e-mail address.  We will mail
you information about acupressure, the points for your condition and how
you can participate.

m…@mhc.edu
Monte Cunningham
Acu-Ki Institute
Rt. 2, Box 292-BB
Mars Hill, NC. 28754