Video summary of the anti-HIV movement whose proponents cite a growing body of evidence that that HIV may be a coincidental retroviral traveler. No other retrovirus is said tocause human illness, and 95% of people who test positive for HIV do not have AIDS. AIDS is a moniker for a syndrome of one or more infections. These infections are described as opportunistic, which is how one could describe any illness: infections usually occur when the body's natural defenses are compromised.
Interestingly, symptoms once attributed to AIDS, like "wasting" or KS lesions (human herpes virus-8) or PCP [known as Pneumocystis (carinii) jiroveci Pneumonia] rarely occur or if they do rarely are fatal. Pneumonia is more often than not misdiagnosed as its symptoms are generalized and subacute, whether or not the person is HIV+.
Furthermore, "PCP has been documented recently in persons who are mildly immunocompromised, including those with chronic lung disease" (Contini C, Villa MP, Romani R, Merolla R, Delia S, Ronchetti R. Detection of Pneumocystis carinii among children with chronic respiratory disorders in the absence of HIV infection and immunodeficiency. J Med Microbiol 1998;47:329–33.}
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