Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:27:41 +0200
From: Bwanika <Daniel.BwanikaH961-AT-stud.oru.se>
Subject: BHA: CR / theory choice & scientific hard facts


Dear listers!

We are not molecular biologist however molecular biologists are humans like
us who have acquired knowledge which we can acquire exactly in the same
ways as they did. 

Many of us here do actually  ask or get journals and read them to find out
for ourselves the mysteries of nature. At times it is good and at times is
bad to read such things but for a CR it is very good. 

Let us chronologically try to find out ourselves what AIDS is and how HIV
becomes to be what it is. 


1. In 1975 Howard Termin / David Baltimore discovers what is called REVERSE
TRANSCRIPTASE or RT.  RT can be termed as retroviruses which contain RNA
instead of DNA  (see below) as their genetic material or in lay mans
language their structural configuration.  These so called retroviruses
depended on the enzymes, reverse transcriptase to convert the code
(structural configuration ) contained as RNA in order to become DNA.

2. In 1980 Robert Gallo discovers what is termed as Human T-cell leukaemia
virus or HTLV , viruses associated blood cancer.

3. In 1983 Montaguine submits a paper on the 20th May 1983 entitled,
"Isolation of T-lymphotropic Retrovirus". It is said the virus was isolated
from blood samples of a 33 year old man in the US  suffering from AIDS, it
is said the man lived for the next 10 years after this discovery. You can
get the paper and read it.

4. In the same year in 1983 a man by the name Gallo credited to have
discovered the HIV virus produces a paper published on the 11th may 1984
entitled " Antigens on HTLV infected cells by leukaemia and AIDS sera
related to HTLV. HTLV means Human T-cell leukaemia virus or HTLV I -II .
The same virus actually discovered by the same man Robert Gallo in 1980!

5. In 1984  Uganda experiences her  first case of slim also scientifically
called AIDS if you want to call it so. At least that is the general view
according to observations and discussion I've had with Uganda's most
educated researchers in the area.

6. On 14th December  1983 Abraham Karpas a leukaemia researcher at the
Dept. of Haematological medicine at Cambridge University comes up with a
paper entitle " Molecular Biology in Medicine " he had  discovered by
electron microscope pictures of a virus called Lymphodenopathy Associated
Virus or LAV.

7. In may 1986 the International Taxonomy of viruses agree that Gallo's
Human T-cell leukaemia virus or  (HTLV I - II) and  Karpas's
Lymphodenopathy Associated Virus or (LAV) are identical therefore they
should be called human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.

8. Polio vaccine launched in the central and the great lakes region were
launched in 1958 among thousands of children according to what I have read.
We are informed that people with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS
die in three to five /six years. I wonder how many of these children died
if the case is such that this polio vaccine is linked to AIDS causing virus
HIV or other viruses derived from polio vaccine developmed from monkeys or
Africans habits of eating chimpanzees- the chimapanze arm AIDS theory!

9. Prior to HIV discovery i.e HTLV + LAV = HIV, virus like Taxoplasma which
affects the brain and eye, Cryotosporidum a diarrhoea virus, Herpes a
mouth, anus, genital virus, cytomegalovirus  i.e. retina of the eye virus,
mycobacteria e.g. T.B. virus, Cryptocoicus for meningitis , pneumocystics
for pneumonia and Kaposis's sarcoma for blood vessel cancer (according to
one Uganda doctor known since late 60's) have been in existence.  

You'll notice that these are some of the opportunistic diseases associated
with AIDS i.e. causing what are said to be symptoms to AIDS what I can't
understand is HIV a combination of these virus or it is HTLV + LAV = HIV or
we don't know?!


1. Wasting symptoms are

Weight loss
Diarrhoea
Fever

2. Said Aids indicators

Night sweets
Herpes zoetes
Herpes simplex

3. AIDS patients

Oral rush
Fungal skin infection
Haematological problems

Question as per point three and Karpas's LAV implies that AIDS precedes HIV
or I am missing something?

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Notes:
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the basic genetic material of the cell 
DNA contains four such bases the purines adenine (A) and guanine (G) and
the pyrimidines cytosine (C) and thymine (T). 
Cell division which can clearly be seen through a microscope takes place in
four phases prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. However, between
the telophase and the next prophase a lengthy period called the interphase
occurs, during which the chromosomes are too thin and strung out to be
seen. Important chemical activities take place during the interphase.
Ribonucleic acid (RNA), chemically related to DNA, and proteins are
synthesized during the lengthy interphase as well as during the relatively
short period of cell division. 
The RNA molecule, markedly similar to DNA, usually consists of a single
chain. The RNA chain contains ribose sugars instead of deoxyribose. In RNA,
the pyrimidine uracil (U) replaces the thymine of DNA 








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