NotAIDS! has been saying for some time that many of the same immunosuppresive symptoms attributed to HIV can be a misdiagnosis of intestinal or other parasite infections.

Research has been published here that shows identical proteins and surface proteins are expressed by various parasites as by HIV, such as p24, gp160.

Not long ago, there was a splashy announcement in the mainstream press that "HIV lives in the gut" and hides out in the lymphatic tissue.  Interesting, since intestinal parasites hang out in the same neighborhood.

How coincidental that Irritable Bowel Syndrome affected a great many gay men in the 1970s, but this "syndrome" - a eupheism for intestinal parasites - disappeared suddenly around 1981, and was replaced with something called GRID - Gay Related Immune Deficiency -, ultimately becoming known as AIDS.

To fit the HIV/AIDS model, any disease occuring in the presence of a silly little antibody to an even sillier little retrovirus named unimaginitively,  Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is "coinfection." 

Keeping this in mind, divert for a moment and ask yourself, when you have the flu, or  a cold, is it said that you are "coinfected" with mononucleosis or meningitis - which you had when you were in college and for which you still have antibodies?

As far as the HIV/AIDS model is concerned, it is reported that "coinfection" with HIV and the  parasite, cryptospordium, is a leading cause of mortality from AIDS. 

What a surprise.   

Now read the following Author's Summary of just-completed research into the connection between intestinal parasites and, not just the progression to AIDS, but to the prevalence of AIDS in regions where parasitic infections are endemic due to an shameful lack of water purification and sanitation systems.

 Please note that the AIDS industry is busy sending millions of dollars to these regions for pharmaceutical products, rather than building much more cost-efficient solutions, like sewage systems and drinking water filtration facilities. 

The other question you need to ask, is whether there is even a remote possibility that without HIV, a long-term parasite infection will cause AIDS - meaning a syndrome of immune deficiency as indicated by a plethora of infections which normally the body would defeat.

If there is this possibility, then AIDS researchers all over the world may want to think about switching tracks, from the glamorous celebrity that is an insignficant retrovirus, to a field definitely with more ick-factor, and less star-appeal

- The Editor

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