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Truth Shrouded in Hysteria Africa; and in Australia there have | became infected with the retrovirus. been no definitely confirmed cases | Researchers have found that many of heterosexual AIDS transmis- | homosexual men - who account for two- sion! thirds of Americans with AIDS - have a long histories of low-grade infections Debunking AIDS that overload the body’s immune sys- Australia has had only 681 AIDS-posi- | tem. Extensive treatment with antibi- tive cases (from a population of over 16 | otics hasbeen linked with AIDS suscep- million - only .0042%) since reporting | tibility as well. began in 1979. The other groups most at risk - her- Since AIDS testingis only 85% accu- | oin users, hmmophiliacs and hospital _— . 4 rl rate, 15% of those diagnosed as healthy | patients who received blood before 1985 AIDS disinformation is rife. are in fact infected and are not given a | -share some of the same infections, and While the World Health Organ- | secondtest. Furthermore,15%ofpeople | each group has its own unique set of isation (WHO) says there were | whodon'thaveAIDSare toldthey'rein- | “host-factors” or “co-factor” disorders. 73,670 AIDS-positive cases | fected after their first test. When given The “co-factor” theory challenges worldwide at the end of 1987 (a | their second test, 15% of these -2.25%- | the widely-held assumption that the 40% rise last year), the London Ps Saivelynald that they definitely have Gp tials: ole Tl pec bee 4 Sunday Times and other main- the Ss, P in ways most likely to cause infection. stream media are claiming Racist Disease Researches are now recognising there are 2.5 million cases in | Another recent study by geneticistshas | that for healthy men and women, in- Zambia alone, with over 50,000 | shown that Negroes are more suscep- | fection may not result in death or deaths there already - but no tible to AIDS than other groups. Human | even illness. Recent studies show sources have been cited for these | beings have three major ‘G-factors’, or that frequency of intercourse is genetic factors, which can be used via ; figures. new DNA mapping procedures to show “I believe there are people who have AIDS for Africa (among other things) a person’s racial | encountered the virus and successfully . history. AIDS has been shown to infect | fought it off,” says Miss Susanna Cun- Most of Africa has an equal proportion | the G-factor group which characterises | ningham-Rundles, an associate profes- of men to women carriers andagrowing | most Negroes more easily than any | sor of immunology at the Cornell Uni- number of babies are born infected. other group. versity centre in New York. In South Africa however, AIDS re- Some patients have cured them- ports were confined mainly to whites - Immune Response selves completely - with no sign of AIDS claiming sixty lives among homosexu- | There is growing recognition, backed by | remaining in their system - and re- als, intravenous drug users and | now-considerable laboratory evidence, | searchers are at a Joss to otherwise hemophiliacs according to the WHO. | that many of those whohave AIDS were | explain how many people fail to develop The Botha government has ordered | probably suffering from a diminished | any symptoms after AIDS is detected in mandatory AIDS screening for all for- | ability to fight off disease before they | their bloodstreams = eigners seeking work in South Africa and Health Minister Dr Willie van New Bus ScHoou Do.puins Hunt Mines Niekirk has warned that all foreigners | Sydney's Scots College has a plan to ar- PERSIAN F with AIDS will be expelled and South | rest “moral decay” of its students by ; - % Gut African sufferers isolated. isolating them in natural surroundings | 'V& Bees moutgen A Recent tests by the Chamber of | for a year. The school has bought 120 | PLACE I YWAMNELAWP Mines on workers have turned upabout | hectares oflandat Kangaroo Valley and =) 5 1,000 positive cases. Most mine workers | begun constructing cabins that will = are ‘migrants’ forced to regularly travel | house 180 Year 9 students. In addition huge distances from their ‘homelands’ | to the regular school curriculum, the to the mines. boys will prepare food, collect firewood, | The US Navy has sent five dolphins to Why the disparity between African | hike and abseil. The isolated camp will | their Middle Bast Force in the Persian Negro and general world figures? Stud- | give all-round supervision to the Pres- | Gulf, to assist them in detecting under- ies have shown that the spread of AIDS | byterian school, will prevent relations | water mines. The dolphins are trained in Africa has followed immunization | with the opposite sex, and interference | tospot only the type of mine deployed by programs in which entire villages are | by parents. Headmaster, Graeme Ren- | Iran, but were not trained to attempt to commonly injected using one needle - | ney developed the plan out of concern | detonate them, according to military dropped in a bucket of water for ‘sterili- | that his pupils were beinginfluencedby | sources who asked not to be identified. zation’. This alone cpuld account for the | a society in which the Church has lost Two of the dolphin tear have died of rapid ‘heterosexual’ spread of AIDS in | all its impact. bacterial infections. NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 1 eee ; Racist Disease AIDS for Africa IN PeRsIAN GULF