Health Education AIDS Liaison, TorontoHaemophilia, HIV & Blood Products
The Center for Disease Control admit that
Factor VIII or other blood products
could not be carrying infectious HIV!
Given the perilous future for haemophilia patients enshrined in the CDC's 1993 AIDS definition and cognisant of
the fact that factor VIII has long been supplied as a freeze-dried powder which may spend many weeks or months waiting use,
it is incomprehensible that the CDC would also, in 1994, communicate the following experimental data and conclusion:
"In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV,
laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high
concentrations of laboratory grown virus...the amount of virus studied
is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature,...it does
not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host. Although these
unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely
controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown
that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number
of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours.
Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher
than those actually found in blood or other body specimens, drying of
HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical
risk of environmental transmission to that which has been
observed-essentially zero."
-CDC Fact sheet on HIV transmission, January, 1994
So why have many Haemophiliacs tested positive for HIV antibodies?
What role could AZT and combination therapy play in the increase in deaths among HIV+ haemophiliacs?
DARBY DEBUNKED
Paul Philpott
The famous hemophiliac study by Sara Darby that supposedly proves a role for HIV in AIDS actually points towards non-contagious factors rather than HIV.
FACTOR VIII, HIV AND AIDS IN HAEMOPHILIACS: AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR
RELATIONSHIP
Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos,1 Valendar F.Turner2,
John M. Papadimitriou3 & David Causer1
1: Department of Medical Physics, 2: Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia; 3: Department of Pathology, University
of Western Australia.
Genetica 95: 25-50, 1995
Dr. Eleopulos et al. publish evidence that there is little or no likelihood of "HIV" being in Factor VIII (missing clotting factor prescribed to haemophiliacs) and in the unlikely event of a few particles the Factor VIII manufacturing process they could not possibly be viable infectious particles. After this paper was accepted for publication the CDC forwarded the authors a copy of its fact sheet (quoted above) presumably to serve as a rebuttal. Does the right hand know what the left is doing around the CDC?
FOREIGN-PROTEIN-MEDIATED IMMUNODEFICIENCY IN HEMOPHILIACS WITH
AND WITHOUT HIV
Peter H. Duesberg
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Stanley Hall,
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Genetica 95: 51-70, 1995
Prof. Deusberg publishes evidence that the immune suppression found in haemophiliacs is directly related to the contamination of clotting factors by foreign proteins, which have constituted 99% of the product. The immunosuppression is directly age and dose related.
 Japanese HIV blood trial
Ablin RJ. The Lancet Volume 359, Number 9304 / 02 February 2002
The author discusses how poorly purified antihaemophiliac factor VIII blood products in the mid-1980s contributed to the death of patients:
"The clinical importance of factor-VIII-induced immunosuppression to the predisposition to HIV-1[*] in haemophiliacs has been borne out by the high frequency of immune aberrations in HIV-1-seronegative compared with seropositive haemophiliacs.3 This finding suggests that such aberrations are due to factors other than HIV-1. Also relevant is the variation in geographical incidence of AIDS-associated haemophilia in the USA relative to the source (purity) of blood coagulation concentrate received.3 Haemophiliacs in New York City, for example, an area representative of one of the highest number of AIDS-associated cases in the USA,3 were principal recipients of factor VIII concentrates containing the greatest amount of factor XIII contaminant and suppressive activity.2"
* Perhaps it would have made more sense to say AIDS here.
NEW LINDSAY TRIBUNAL SUBMISSION
A global-reach voluntary group based in Ireland, and incorporating five
scientists of international repute appointed to the South African President
Mbeki's Advisory Panel on HIV/AIDS, on Thursday 21st June, 2001, will
make a preliminary written submission to the Irish Lindsay Tribunal
inquiring into haemophiliac mortality:
"That morbidity and mortality in haemophiliacs attributed to HIV, arises
principally from other causes."
HAVE
HEMOPHILIACS EVER BEEN AT RISK
FOR HIV INFECTION THROUGH
FACTOR VIII?
A curious correspondence between HEAL Toronto and the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S.A.. They confirm that HIV could not have been transmitted to people with haemophilia via transfusions of clotting factor
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