AIDS - What the Government Isn't Telling You

The Old Party Line

1. In 1980 it was believed that AIDS did not transmit at all.
2. In 1981 it was believed that AIDS did not transmit through blood transfusions.
It took 14,000 to 16,000 victims with HIV from transfusions to get our authorities
to admit that the cause was the bank inventories and that maybe, it was time to test.
3. In 1983 it was believed that AIDS did not transmit heterosexually--at least not in
America. In Africa, maybe- but surely not here!
4. In 1987 it was believed that needle sticks were harmless.
5. We now believe, in 1991 that HIV does not transmit to children living in a household
where there is HIV.
6. The general public stance is that this virus can't transmit via kissing, through sharing
of utensils, by shaking hands or via aerosols. One risks professional lynching,
practically, if one suggests mosquitoes, bedbugs, ticks or flys.

7. These claims of non-transmission are being made because there is no clear-cut

"evidence" that HIV transmits that way.
The truth is no one has done the proper studies.
8. Scientific evidence now tells us clearly that it may take ten years or longer to develop
the symptoms of AIDS.
9. AIDS does transmit through the exchange of blood, saliva and semen via mucous
membranes, both injured and intact.
10. It is now recognized that transmission from mother to child can occur, not just
prenatally through the placenta (as most lay people blithely believe) but at birth by
coming in contact with HIV- positive blood ( by swallowing or inhaling it), or after birth
through mother's milk.

11. We have a country that serves as a precedent of what can happen if this disease is
left unchecked. In Zaire, one in three people now carries the virus. Among them are
hundreds of thousands of children. There are no data on these children. Not all of them,
we can deduce, have contracted the disease the only way we hope and pray and wish to
believe it transmits.

12. The documented evidence, at present, is in only few cases:

* It transmits in saliva.

* It transmits by blood-on-blood through open wounds.

* There is evidence that it transmits through intact skin.

* It will transmit after having been frozen.

* It transmits through artificial insemination.

The CDC states (Centers for Disease Control)
In the laboratory, the skin (especially when scratches, cuts, abrasions, dermatitis,
or other lesions are present) and mucous membranes of the eye, nose, mouth, and
possibly the respiratory tract should be considered as potential pathways for entry of
virus.

13. There is evidence it can be transmitted through aerosols.

14. Live virus has been found in blood, semen, breast milk, vaginal secretions, saliva,
tears, urine, cerebrospinal fluid and amniotic fluid admits the CDC.

15. According to one CDC release, experiments were set up to investigate transmission
by body fluids, but "blood was found to transmit the disease most readily, so persons
exposed to other body fluids subsequently were excluded from the study. (15)

16. There existed as of October, 1989, four reported cases of salivary transmission.

17. It's not only a kiss that may infect. What if a spoon or a martini glass left on the
counter carried the infective virus?

18. A 1985 report from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, revealed that concentrated
AIDS virus in saliva remains alive and infective on a dry surface at room temperature for
as long as 7 days.

19. In a second study, Italian medical researchers analyzed the saliva of 45 healthy,
uninfected heterosexual couples for blood cells in saliva. We know that blood cells
transmit this virus. These researchers found that 55 percent of the couples had traces of
blood in their saliva after eating. 80 percent showed traces of blood after brushing their
teeth, and 91 percent after passionate kissing.

20. Transmission has also occurred from open wound to open wound where HIV -
positive blood was spilled by accident.
For example, an American tourist in Africa became infected with the AIDS virus
during a bus accident when blood from other injured passengers splashed into his
wounds.
The 32 year old man tested negative for the AIDS virus when he donated blood
just before he left for his trip. He had never used intravenous drugs and had no
homosexual experiences. His heterosexual partners tested negative for the AIDS virus.
A 25 year old Italian soccer player contracted the AIDS virus after an injury
caused by a collision with another player during a soccer game.

21. A female phlebotomist was splashed on the face and mouth with blood from a
vacuum test tube. She had facial acne, but no open wounds. Although she cleaned the
blood off immediately she still turned HIV - positive.
22. There findings seem to indicate that getting accidentally contaminated with blood on
injured or even intact skin can lead to HIV infection.

The HIV is not a fragile virus.

1. Not all disinfectants will kill it.
2. The virus is not inactivated by 70 percent ethyl alcohol poured on it for twenty
minutes.

23. Studies have shown that intact skin can absorb the HIV virus.

24. In 1989, diagnosed AIDS cases increased by 14 percent compared with 1988. Of the
total number of AIDS cases, 5.2 percent had no identified risk factors. (homosexual sex,
sharing dirty needles, blood transfusions or from infected mother to baby at birth.)
That 5.2 percent represents 1,848 persons with "No Identified Risk Factors" in
1989, an increase from 1,012 in 1988.
That is a 55 percent increase in only one year of people who contracted the
disease and no one knows how.