Letter in The Miami Herald Newspaper

“Does the HIV virus really cause AIDS?”

July 17^th, 2002

by Dr. Rudi Werner [not associated with the society]
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Miami and
School of Medicine, Coral Gables

In your July 14 editorial “The other global threat”, you write “unless more is done, 70 million people will die of AIDS by 2020.” Similar predictions have often been made and disproven. It is the pharmaceutical industry that is interested in keeping the AIDS threat alive to sell more drugs.

The HIV-AIDS hypothesis remains just that – a hypothesis. Many experts’ predictions turned out to be false. For example, contrary to the prediction that AIDS would rapidly spread into the heterosexual population, the disease in the United States is still restricted to 85% males.

Yet HIV positives are found with equal frequency in healthy male and female Army recruits. This discrepancy doesn’t support the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by HIV. Is AIDS infectious? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the chance of getting infected by HIV is about one in 1,000 encounters. You are more likely to catch the flu from your sex partner, but is the flu considered a sexually transmitted disease?

AIDS drugs have been credited for the reduction in AIDS deaths. But there is no scientific evidence that these toxic drugs prolong life. A study in Uganda shows that the time between becoming HIV-positive and the time of death is identical in the United States. The Uganda group received no AIDS drugs, while the U.S. group did.

Since most people in the Uganda study were malnourished and multiply infected, doesn’t that suggest that antiretroviral drugs reduce life expectancy? Malnutrition is the most common cause of immune deficiency. The HIV virus is often not found in AIDS patients. Instead, an antibody test and a viral load test are used to infer the presence of HIV.

Actually, everybody tests positive for HIV unless his serum is diluted. AIDS is any one of 29 different diseases, all of which were known long before the arrival of HIV. If you have tuberculosis and are HIV-negative, then you have TB, but if you have TB and are HIV-positive, then you have AIDS. This kind of definition ensures a correlation between AIDS and HIV.

Unfortunately, the government suppresses alternative explanations of AIDS. This dogmatic approach certainly will lead to a medical disaster.

Check out the CDC website and the medical literature.