AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome  (disease,  virus)
Start	1981
Abbreviation	AIDS
Interest of	• Deborah Birx • Peter Duesberg • Anthony Fauci • Robert Gallo • Gregg Gonsalves • David Lewis • Jeanne Marrazzo • Jon Rappoport • Robert Redfield • Zhengli Shi • Soumya Swaminathan • The Perth Group • Blaine Trump • UNAIDS • Don Craig Wiley
Subpage(s)	•AIDS/Background

The Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a spectrum of medical conditions caused by a pathogen.

Official Narrative

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the HIV virus. It "brought on a new era in government-guided vaccine research, under the guidance of Anthony Fauci."

Origins

The disease is widely believed to have emerged by zoonotic jump. A constellation of symptoms named "Gay-related immune deficiency" was noted in 1982. In 1983, a group of scientists and doctors at the Pasteur Institute in France, led by Luc Montagnier, discovered a new virus in a patient with signs and symptoms that often preceded AIDS. They named the virus lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV, and sent samples to Robert Gallo in the United States.

Pathology

Following initial infection a person may not notice any symptoms, or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. Typically, this is followed by a prolonged period with no symptoms. If the infection progresses, it interferes more with the immune system, increasing the risk of developing common infections such as tuberculosis, as well as other opportunistic infections, and tumors which are otherwise rare in people who have normal immune function.

Treatment

The drug AZT was used during the 1980s to suppress the outbreak of AIDS in a person infected with the HIV virus. The inventor of AZT, Jerome Horwitz, is reported to have been so unsatisfied with the drug that he "dumped it on the junk pile" and "didn’t [even] keep the notebooks". AZT was an chemotherapy-like drug of extreme, even fatal, toxicity and "so worthless" to him that he "didn’t think it was worth patenting" as former BusinessWeek journalist Bruce Nussbaum writes in his book: "Good Intentions: How Big Business and the Medical Establishment are Corrupting the Fight against AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Cancer and More."

Research

In February 2020 Forbes published No, The Coronavirus Was Not Genetically Engineered To Put Pieces Of HIV In It. Other commercially-controlled media had similar titles.

HIV/SARS virus combinations

In 2007 the Journal of Virology published Difference in Receptor Usage between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and SARS-Like Coronavirus of Bat Origin, a paper by Wuze Ren, Xiuxia Qu, Wendong Li, Zhenggang Han, Meng Yu, Peng Zhou, Shu-Yi Zhang, Lin-Fa Wang, Hongkui Deng and Zhengli Shi. They described preparation of "HIV-based pseudoviruses" and "investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2 molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat." The corresponding author's address was the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some (or all?) of the work was carried out.

Operation INFEKTION

Operation INFEKTION was the popular name given to a campaign run by the KGB and other Eastern European services in the 1980s to plant the idea that HIV/AIDS was a "result of secret experiments with a new type of biological weapon by the secret services of the USA and the Pentagon that spun out of control".

In 1986, the East German MfS asked its Bulgarian sister intelligence service to assist in distributing materials. The East German "will deliver a scientific study and other materials that prove that AIDS originated in the USA, not in Africa, and that AIDS is a product of the USA’s bioweapons research" The goal of the campaign was "exposing the dangers to mankind arising from the research, production, and use of biological weapons, and also in order to strengthen anti-American sentiments in the world and to spark domestic political controversies in the USA".

Historian Thomas Boghardt popularized the codename "INFEKTION" based on the claims of former East German Ministry of State Security (Stasi) officer Günther Bohnsack, who claimed that the Stasi codename for the campaign was either "INFEKTION" or perhaps also "VORWÄRTS II" ("FORWARD II").

However, historians Christopher Nehring and Douglas Selvage found in the former Stasi and Bulgarian State Security archives materials that prove the actual Stasi codename for the AIDS disinformation campaign was Operation DENVER.

In 1985 Literaturnaya Gazeta published an article that claimed that the Centers for Disease Control had participated in a program to "create another kind of biological weapon" for the Pentagon, and that "They made a special trip to Africa, and particularly to Zaire and Nigeria, then to Latin America, to collect materials about highly pathological viruses that cannot be encountered in European and Asian countries."

One might note that the discovery of the Soviet propaganda effort does not actually disprove any US involvement, as the Soviet campaign serves as a convenient foil to blanket dismiss all relevant questions of origins and research programs.

Even the Soviets correctly noted "given that operational information has recently come to light regarding the possible actual involvement of the USA in the origins of the AIDS pandemic"... "particularly the right-wing groups in the Reagan Administration and in the Pentagon are promoting bacteriological weapons produced on the basis of new technologies, including gene technology."

South Africa

Full article: South African Institute for Maritime Research

According to former members, a South African intelligence-connected militia spread the HIV virus through vaccines in the early 1980s. The subject was also mentioned by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but not investigated in full, possibly because it would touch on foreign partners.

Criticism

• Critics of the "HIV is causing AIDS" theory may argue:
  • HIV does not exist, or HIV has not been adequately isolated
  • HIV does not fulfill Koch's postulates, or HIV testing is inaccurate
  • HIV came around at a time when virus related cancer research proved to be a dead-end. In the late 70s this branch of science came to the realization that a virus is not the cause of cancer - thus a number of laboratories around the world had to cease operation and were to be closed, but the narrative of the virus related illness (AIDS) offered a new avenue for research and so they could continue to operate. In other words there was incentive for some laboratories that were threatened by closure to agree to the conclusions of Gallo and Montagnier and not look critically at the facts that were presented.

• Suggested alternative causes of AIDS include:
  • recreational drugs, such as amyl nitrite ("poppers")
  • malnutrition
  • the very antiretroviral drugs used to treat the syndrome, especially AZT
  • symptoms from other diseases have been summarized under AIDS

Kary Mullis

Nobel Prize-winner and inventor of the PCR technique Kary Mullis became doubtful about the science behind AIDS when he couldn't get an answer from Luc Montagnier about a study that would prove the sentence "HIV is the probable cause of AIDS".

 

A AIDS victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Nicholas Eden	Son of UK PM Anthony Eden

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
1991	“It is widely believed by the general public that a retrovirus called HIV causes a group of diseases called AIDS. Many biomedical scientists now question this hypothesis. We propose a thorough reappraisal of the existing evidence for and against this hypothesis, to be conducted by a suitable independent group. We further propose that the critical epidemiological studies be devised and undertaken.”	Robert Hoffman Charles A. Thomas Jr Harvey Bialy Harry Rubin Richard C. Strohman Phillip E. Johnson Gordon J. Edlin Beverly E. Griffin Robert S. Root-Bernstein Gordon Stewart Carlos Sonnenschein Richard L. Pitter Nathaniel S. Lehrman John Lauritsen William Holub Claudia Holub Frank R. Buianouckas Philip Rosen Steven Jonas Bernard K. Forscher Kary B. Mullis Jeffrey A. Fisher Hansueli Albonico Timothy H. Hand Eleni Eleopulos Robert W. Maver Ken N. Matsumura David T. Berner Theodor Wieland Joan Shenton John Anthony Morris Sungchul Ji	6 June 1991
Azidothymidine	“The reason why only one drug has been made available — AZT — is because it’s the only drug that has been shown in scientifically controlled trials to be safe and effective.”	Anthony Fauci
Li Keqiang	“In the 90s, several dispensaries of the Government of Henan Province (led at the time by Li) launched a blood trade, exploiting the poverty of many farmers. The lack of hygiene in the transfusions helped spread the HIV virus in the country. In subsequent years, the future prime minister used every form of censorship and repression to prevent the truth from emerging.”	Li Keqiang Asianews.it	2012
Sasha Latypova	“The perpetrators desperately, at all cost, need you to to believe that "mutating viruses in a lab" achieves some scary result, that then can be "leaked". That anyone can do it, even a PhD student in their garage. That our enemies are doing it and will "release" a super scary bug any time now, unless the Government is "prepared" by making a stockpile of "predictive vaccines" that can be deployed in DAYS after a new scary virus is detected in China. Or Timbuktu. It is, however, a narrative. There is no way to "mutate viruses" in a lab in the way they all imply - to artificially make them deadlier and more transmissible at the same time. This is a propaganda fairytale with a very specific goal. You should be very concerned about any person (on "their" side or "ours") who repeats it with a serious face. Sure, scientists can experiment with soups of DNA/RNA and grow things in petri dishes. They can design mutations on the computer and try to make concoctions of things. Are those "viruses" that can "leak from the lab" and "infect the world"? No. The proof of this is that while there are 1000 biolabs in the US and Western world playing with viruses. no pandemics or epidemics have resulted from these activities.”	Sasha Latypova	27 January 2023
Thabo Mbeki	“Not long ago, in our own country, people were killed, tortured, imprisoned and prohibited from being quoted in private and in public because the established authority believed that their views were dangerous and discredited. We are now being asked to do precisely the same thing that the racist apartheid tyranny we opposed did, because, it is said, there exists a scientific view that is supported by the majority, against which dissent is prohibited... People who otherwise would fight very hard to defend the critically important rights of freedom of thought and speech occupy, with regard to the HIV-AIDS issue, the frontline in the campaign of intellectual intimidation and terrorism...”	Thabo Mbeki
Plasma Economy	“In the 90s, several dispensaries of the Government of Henan Province (led at the time by Li) launched a blood trade, exploiting the poverty of many farmers. The lack of hygiene in the transfusions helped spread the HIV virus in the country. In subsequent years, the future prime minister used every form of censorship and repression to prevent the truth from emerging.”	Asianews.it	2012
Jon Rappoport	“Long term, the medical cartel is the most dangerous cartel in the world, because they fly under a politically neutral banner. They claim they are completely non-partisan, we are here to help, to heal, and that's it. Who could doubt that? This is the greatest cover operation anyone could conceive of, using medical science, the medical system, with its toxic drugs, its toxic vaccines, to destroy whole populations from within. And occasionally come out with some massive epidemic program to further suppress and destroy populations.”	Jon Rappoport	29 September 2022

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