AIDS Research The following report contains excerpts from: The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor "The Great Global AIDS Plague of the 1990s (And How To Survive It)," Phoenix, Arizona, September 1990. Lancet, "Resistance of AIDS Virus at Room Temperature," Viral Oncology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. September 28, 1985. Introduction America and the entire world are faced with the greatest medical crisis since the Black Death plague which wiped out over one-third of Europe's population several hundred years ago. The AIDS plague, the severity of which has consistently bee n covered up by the American and other governments to avoid a panic, is already at epidemic levels and will within a few more years be a pandemic. The economic, political, and sociological implications of this plague are horrendous and will change t he course of U.S. and world history for centuries. What is AIDS? AIDS is actually a family of viruses related to HIV (HTLV-3), Hepatitis B, Herpes Type 2HSV and Epstein-Barr virus (which is related to mononucleosis "the so-called "kissing disease"). There is not one AIDS virus but thousands (i.e., 9,000 2), or perhaps millions is more accurate. AIDS is the most rapidly mutating virus in history and therefore (according to former Surgeon General Everett Koop) it will be difficult, if not impossible to ever find a vaccine cure. (It would take thousa nds or millions of vaccines.) A person can carry the virus for 10 years with no symptoms of the disease (five years is average but many victims carry it for only one to two years before getting the disease). Most victims die within two years of the virus breaking out into the actual disease (i.e., when it moves from the body fluids into the cells). Once the virus enters the brain, maximum survival is two years. In 90% of the cases, it does enter the brain and dementia results. Some people get the virus and come down with the disease very quickly because their immune system is down, they've been drinking a lot of alcohol, etc. The disease is 100% fatal - there is no known cure. The disease has recently shown up in animals and fish (in recent months it was found in dolphins on the East Coast). AIDS is rapidly moving from being an epidemic to a pandemic. The latter spreads to almost everyone and becomes unstoppable - such as the Hong Kong flu in 1969. I. THE INCIDENCE OF AIDS IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD AIDS infections in America and around the globe are now beginning to multiply geometrically although researchers and health officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to the Pasteur Institute i n France (because of very little testing) all differ on the totals. The CDC says there are 1.7 million AIDS victims in America, and estimate 440,000 new cases by the end of 1992. Other researchers estimate over 3 million cases in the U.S. today, and some estimate 10 million current infections with the virus. It took 6 1/2 years for the U.S. to record its first 50,000 full blown cases of AIDS, 18 months to record its second 50,000 cases, and probably 12 months to record the third 50,000 cases (according to Dr. Ruth Berkelman, Chief of the surveillance branch of the CDC's AIDS program). As of March 31, 1989, there had been 52,435 "recorded" deaths from AIDS with WHO projecting 215,000 U.S. AIDS deaths by 1992. (AIDS will kill more Americans in 1991 alone than died in the entire Vietnam War, according to FDA commissioner Frank Young.) WHO estimates that during the 1980s, 6-8 million people worldwide got the AIDS virus, that over 10 million were infected in 1990, and that 18-24 million more will get it during the 1990s. (500,000 new cases have just been reported by WHO in S.E. Asia over the past 24 months.) The U.S. Public Health Service, in a study released in late 1989 entitled, "The Catastrophe Ahead: AIDS and the Case for a New Public Policy" concluded that 14.5 million Americans would be infected by the virus by 2002. The Hudson Institute has estimated that 630,000 U.S. heterosexuals are presently infected with the AIDS virus. If one considers that WHO already estimates that up to 50 million Africans will be infected with the virus by 1992 (other AIDS research institutes believe the number is currently closer to 150 million) and that AIDS is exploding in S.E. Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, and the U.S. - then one can conclude that all of these estimates are low, perhaps very low. The lack of mandatory testing and the dishonest reporting of the cause of most AIDS deaths as TB, cancer, flu, etc., make the AIDS statistics hopelessly underestimated. A. THE NEW YORK AIDS INFECTION RATE : In New York, AIDS is the leading cause of death for males between the ages of 24 and 44 and for women between 25 and 34. In the New York/New Jersey area, 25% of men aged 25-44 have tested positive fo r the AIDS virus (the highest "reported" AIDS infection rate in the world) while 3% of all new babies born in the Bronx have the virus (30-40% of children born to infected women are themselves infected). In a state-wide survey, authorities found tha t one in every 155 women of child-bearing age in New York State was infected with the AIDS virus while one in every 77 women of child-bearing age in New York City was infected with the deadly virus. Since 1982, 10,000 New Yorkers have been "reported" to have died of AIDS. One in seven prisoners in New York City jails now test positive for AIDS. Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York Health Commissioner, estimates that there are 400,000 AIDS carriers in the city; other AIDS researchers say the number could be as high as 700,000. Dr. Joseph says that by 1991, the city will have 100,000 full-blown cases of AIDS. Today some 50-60% of New York's 200,000 drug addicts are infected with AIDS, and over 70% of the city's homosexuals are estimated to be infected. (The CDC estimates that 60% of San Francisco's male gays are infected with the viru s and 54% of all homosexuals in Atlanta). In New York 44% of all AIDS victims are white and 56% non-white. B. INCUBATION TIME - One of the most dangerous aspects of the AIDS plague is that it can take up to 10 years after a person is infected with the virus for that person to develop AIDS symptoms and come down with the disease. (For about half of the AIDS victims, the incubation period is 5-7 years.) These long incubation periods mean that an infected person can go on infecting dozens (or hundreds) of people for years without (in many cases) even knowing that they are spreading the disease, like a "typhoid Mary." Unless they have had an AIDS test, they could infect large numbers of people for up to a decade. C. AIDS TESTING CAN BE INVALID FOR 3-4 YEARS AFTER INFECTION - Another ominous aspect of the AIDS virus is that there can be up to a 3 1/2 to 4 year period (or more) when a person can be carrying the AIDS virus, be infective, and yet test n egative (i.e., test as if he or she did not have the virus when they actually do). Dr. Imagwa of the University of California has reported that some AIDS carriers may never test positive. In other words, blood testing is not necessarily valid and p eople who have tested clean can in fact go on infecting others, blood banks, etc. D. THE MAGIC OF COMPOUND GROWTH - We all know the magic of compound interest, and how 8% annual interest, reinvested and compounded, can make an investment grow geometrically over a number of years. But imagine something growing at an 8% per month compounding rate. That's how fast the CDC and other AIDS research groups say AIDS (the disease - not just the viral infection) is growing in America (actually 8-1/4% per month). Using the CDC's own numbers of 286,818 Americans with the disease in June 1990, by the end of the year the number of people with the active disease would be 461,502. By the end of 1991, compounding at 8-1/4% per month, 1,194,834 Americans wi ll be dying from AIDS; by the end of 1992 - 3,093,441; by the end of 1993 - 8,008,971; by the end of 1994 - 20,735,553; by the end of 1995 - 53,684,169; by the end of 1996 - 138,988,183; and by July 1997 - 259,500,643 Americans would have the AIDS disease (i.e., America's entire population). Undoubtedly at some point the rate would slow, but the magnitude of the problem causes one to stop and ponder. In Africa, the number of people contracting the disease doubles every six months, in Latin America every seven months - versus every 12 months in America. II. AIDS IS CASUALLY TRANSMITTED Once a critical mass of people have been infected rapidly by highly efficient means of transmitting the virus (i.e., sodomy, exchanging I.V. drug needles, etc.), the transmission by far less efficient means will inevitably occur increasingly often. These include blood transfusions, prenatal transmissions, biologically normal sexual intercourse, needle stick injuries, chance contact of sores or abrasions with contaminated blood, saliva or sputum, transmission by blood-sucking insects, etc. AIDS victims with no known high risk factor already form the third largest group of infectees in America and the second largest group in Western Europe. Evidence is mounting rapidly that AIDS can be transmitted casually, like the common cold, flu and a host of other viral diseases. It is important to understand that the AIDS virus has been found to be infectious outside the body - after being dried out in a petri dish - for 10 days. It can survive in water or a moist environment almost indefinitely. This indicates that the AIDS virus is a tough virus capable of surviving on inanimate objects for a prolonged period of time. Resistance of AIDS Virus at Room Temperature F. BarrŽ-Sinoussi, M.T. Nugeyre, and J.C. Chermann at the Viral Oncology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, published the following in The Lancet, (9/28/85): "Sir, - LAV/HTLV-III, the agent causing AIDS, has been isolated from body fluids (blood, semen, saliva, tears). Its isolation in saliva prompted us to investigate the possibility of transmission by saliva, and we have studied the sensitivity of LAV//HTLV-III at room temperature. LAV has been reported to be inactivated by heating at 56¡C for 30 min.1 and to persist after 48 hr. at 30¡C.2 The virus used for the infectivity assay was 128,000 cpm/ml equivalent reverse transcriptase and was left at room temperature for 0, 2, 4, or 7 days in a sealed tube or allowed to dry in a petri dish. After the times indicated in the figure the virus was used to infect stimulated T lymphocytes (5000 cpm/106 cells) and viral production was determined in cell free supernatant by testing for the reverse transcriptase activity twice a week.3 One graph (Resistance of LAV in liquid medium) shows unusual stability of LAV/HTLV-III at room temperature (20-22¡C). No significant difference was found between 0, 2, or 4 days. Only a slight decrease is noted with a delay in the virus production indicating a loss of few infectious viral particles after 7 days at room temperature. "Two petri dishes containing 25,000 cpm equivalent reverse transcriptase of dry virus were kept at room temperature for 4 or 7 days and then resuspended in 0-220 ml water and used to measure the infectivity. Another graph (Resistance of drie d preparation of LAV) shows significant numbers of viral particles are then inactivated, but some infectious virus is still present since release of virus was seen on day 10. This result indicates that the virus is resistant at room temperature, eit her in dry form or in liquid medium. ÒThis resistance of LAV at room temperature may explain the appearance of some AIDS cases in non-risk groups. To prevent possible contamination by viral particles in dry or liquid form, hygiene should be increased in the general population. Moreover, some more safety precautions should be taken in laboratories and in hospitals and by dentists who use a vacuum pump for saliva aspiration. Indeed, this data strongly supports the use of disinfectants found to be effective against the AIDS agent.4Ó A. SALIVA AND AIDS Ñ Evidence is growing around the world that AIDS is transmitted via saliva. In Russia, five babies infected by AIDS- tainted needles transmitted the disease to their non-infected mothers through breast-feeding. Policeme n and others who have been bitten by AIDS- infected persons have become infected when none of the AIDS bitersÕ blood has been involved and only the bitersÕ saliva came in contact with the bites. Dr. Jerome Groopman, of the National Institute of Health, said in October 1984: ÒThe recovery of AIDS virus from saliva suggests that direct contact with this body fluid should be avoided since saliva...could facilitate person-to-person trans mission.Ó University of Montreal researchers reported in June 1988 that: ÒSalivary HIV (AIDS) is infective (able to transmit infection),Ó and that ÒThe incidence and percentage of AIDS virus in salivary lymphocytes was significantly higher than in p eripheral blood lymphocytes.Ó The First AIDS Report (4/89) concluded: ÒThe mouth of an individual carrying AIDS acts as a viral incubator, fomenting the manufacture and multiplication of infective AIDS viruses. AIDS virus has been found in Ôhigher incidence and percentag eÕ in salivary lymphocytes than those in blood. The saliva of AIDS carriers should be regarded as an infective body fluid capable of transmitting the disease.Ó ÒThe incidents in the Soviet Union have profound implications: 1) The body fluid of AID S infected children must be considered infectious; 2) AIDS infected infants or children who bite, kiss, or drool infective saliva on other children or shared toys pose a health hazard; 3) Schools, preschools, day care centers, and baby- sitting servic es must have the right to determine if the infants or children seeking their services are AIDS infectious.Ó AIDS infected saliva explains why so many family members (with no sexual contact between them) have come down with AIDS. There is an eight times greater chance of being infected if one lives in the household of a person with AIDS. B. CAN AIDS BE SPREAD VIA COUGHING OR SNEEZING? Ñ British AIDS researcher, Dr. John Seale, believes that AIDS can be spread through coughing and sneezing Ñ just like a common cold, the flu and most other viruses. As Seale said recently in a n interview with The Cutting Edge: ÒIf an AIDS virus is inhaled into the lung it is engulfed by an amoeba-like macrophage from the lining of the alveoli (air sacs). It has been shown repeatedly in the laboratory that the AIDS virus readily infects macrophages, and the virus replicates within them, thereby enabling infection of people initiated by this route. ÒUnderstandably, and wisely, the government had advised dental surgeons in Britain always to wear masks to avoid AIDS virus infection when using high-speed drills. These drills make aerosols of saliva similar to those produced by sneezing. ÒChronic lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis is a well-recognized variety of pneumonia caused directly by infection of the lungs with the AIDS virus. When associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, a very common complication of AIDS, it is inevi table that coughing will produce some aerosols containing tubercle bacilli and the AIDS virus. After the fluid in the aerosols evaporates, the minute dry flakes containing tubercle bacilli and AIDS virus float in the air indefinitely, and both remain infectious for days.Ó When questioned as to whether AIDS is basically a sexual disease, Seale responded that it is not! As Seale said: ÒYou must remember that the animal retro-viruses, from which AIDS was probably derived, are not sexually-transmitted diseases. The maedi-visna virus of sheep is transmitted by respiratory aerosols, and the infectious anemia of horses is transmitted by large biting insects. I have no doubt that AIDS can be transmitted by both of these methods. AIDS is definitely not a clas sic sexually-transmitted disease, but is only incidentally transmitted by the fact that sex is an intimate type of contact.Ó C. AIDS: THE KISSING DISEASE Ñ A letter to the editor of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 12/89, from Italian researchers suggests that passionate (or open mouthed) kissing (defined as Òa kiss lasting a few minutes with vi gorous rubbing if the oral mucosa by partnersÓ) cannot be considered safe sex when it comes to the transmission of AIDS. JAMA (January Õ89) researchers studied 45 heterosexual couples, noting the amount of blood that appeared in their saliva before and after brushing their teeth, eating a meal, and passionate kissing, the percentage of individuals with blood in their saliva increased. They concluded, therefore, that ÒIf the blood of one partner is infected, AIDS can pass into the blood stream of the other partner.Ó JAMA concluded in their study (1/3/89) regarding how much blood contained in saliva can transmit the AIDS infection: ÒKissing generally is considered protective sex (an activity which does not permit transmission of AIDS). We do not agree si nce the oral mucosa is very fragile. After kissing, 91% of couples studied had blood detected in their saliva.Ó The JAMA study demonstrated that the presence of blood is common in the saliva of healthy male and female heterosexuals. Normal daily activities like eating and teeth brushing increase the frequency and quantity of blood in saliva. The stud y concluded that saliva should be regarded as a body fluid capable of transmitting AIDS, and that deep kissing is an activity which must be considered a serious risk behavior for AIDS transmission. Kissing an AIDS carrier can be fatal. (The CDC err ed when it said in its 1988 pamphlet [sent to 107 million homes] that you cannot get AIDS from kissing. You can Ñ from saliva, and from the blood in saliva if your partner is infected with AIDS) D. IMPLICATIONS OF AIDS IN SALIVA AND IN BLOOD IN SALIVA- 1) Direct skin or mucous membrane (i.e. membrane of the eye, mouth, nose) contact with the saliva of AIDS carriers should be avoided. 2) Saliva tinged with AIDS contaminated blood which is sneezed or coughed into the air is infective (just as in the transmission of the common cold virus or flu virus). If the contaminated droplets hit the surface of the eye, are inhaled into the nose mouth or lungs, there is risk of non- sexual person-to-person transmission of AIDS. One doctor, an ENT specialist, believes that he contracted AIDS while performing as emergency tracheotomy on an infected patient while not properly masked. Infection is thought to have occurred from the patientÕs blood and saliva. Another doctor was infected by being coughed upon while putting a tube down a patientÕs throat. 3) Since the AIDS virus can survive on a dry dish for 10 days, objects contaminated with saliva, or blood tinged saliva (i.e., utensils, glasses, cups, etc.) should be disinfected or cleansed in H2O at 169 degrees. 4) Persons in occupations which require the performance of cardio- pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) involving mouth-to-mouth contact (i.e., policemen, firemen, paramedics, nurses) should be routinely screened for AIDS infection. An AIDS infecti ous person performing CPR has the potential of passing AIDS contaminated saliva into the mouth of the recipients. 5) Remember, the stranger you kiss could quite literally be giving you Òthe kiss of death.Ó E. AIDS IN INSECTS It is well known that insects transmit disease. The bubonic plague, which killed tens of millions of people, came from infected fleas which bit infected rats. The encephalitis and yellow fever viruses are transmitted t o man via bites from infected mosquitoes. Malaria, as well as Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are transmitted from bites by infected ticks. The polio virus was thought to be transmitted by infected flies. Why shouldnÕt the AIDS virus (which we know is transferred by dirty AIDS infected needles) be transmitted by blood sucking insects such as mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, etc. which have first bitten (and drawn blood from) an AIDS infected person? An article appeared in late Õ89 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in which it was stated: ÒThe AIDS virus was detected in bed bugs up to eight days after oral exposure to highly concentrated virus in blood meals.Ó The Browning Newslette r (1/21/87) reported: ÒA British team announced in September that they had done a study in Africa and had found 19 bloodsucking insects that were carrying the virus for AIDS...It has been reported that Haiti and Africa show a flat distribution for t he occurrence of AIDS across the population, unlike the U.S., which has an ethnic and ethical distribution of occurrence. The implication is that a different kind of agent Ñ such as the mosquito Ñ may be acting as the disease carrier.Ó This would explain cases in Florida and elsewhere where no high risk activity was present Ñ but a high occurrence of mosquito bites among AIDS infected people was found to be the only common denominator. F. AIDS IN SPORTS Emphasizing the danger of casual AIDS transmission, Italian doctors reported recently in the British medical weekly, Lancet, that a soccer player in Great Britain caught AIDS when he collided with an infected player on th e field. It was known that the infected player had the disease, but special interest groups insisted he should be allowed to play. G. AIDS TRANSMITTED FROM DENTIST TO PATIENT In July, the CDC reported that a Florida dentist who had AIDS removed two teeth from a young 24 year old woman and two years later she became positive for the AIDS virus. The woman had none of t he risk factors associated with AIDS. Studies showed that the virus which affected her had almost an identical genetic structure (i.e., DNA sequence) to the virus being carried by the dentist. The dentist had no cuts on his hands; in fact, he wore latex gloves and a surgical mask during the extraction. He simply breathed on the young woman and she contracted AIDS (much as a cold or the flu virus is transferred from one person to another). III. AIDS SPREADING TO NEW GROUPS AIDS is believed by most Americans to be primarily a disease either sexually transmitted by male homosexuals or by the sharing of I.V. drug needles. These were the first and most vulnerable groups in America (and indeed will be largely extin ct within a decade), but if you will look at Africa and elsewhere around the world, you will see that AIDS is primarily found in heterosexuals. Indeed, AIDS is not a sexual disease at all, although its foremost means of transmission at this writing remains sexual. AIDS is a deadly virus, and as such will be spread in many ways and to many groups. A. AIDS IN HETEROSEXUALS The Hudson Institute has done a study which estimates that there are presently over 630,000 heterosexuals in America inflicted with the AIDS virus. In Africa, where extramarital heterosexual relations with severa l partners a day is the norm, AIDS is spread heterosexually. In Belgium a few years ago, a traveling engineer traveled through the countryside having sex with professional, middle class women. Out of 18 sexual contacts, 10 became infected. In America, rampant pre- and extra-marital sex (often with multiple partners over a period of a year or so Ñ and with some of those male partners being bisexual) is now spreading AIDS rapidly through AmericaÕs so- called ÒstraightÓ population. In New Jersey, AIDS acquired from heterosexual intercourse among women in that state has risen from 14% of infections statewide in 1985 to 48% through 1988 (and is undoubtedly higher in 1990). Prostitutes in Europe, the Far East and America who engage in heterosexual sex are infected with the AIDS virus at rates of 50 to 80% of the total number of prostitutes. African prostitutes are 100% infected. The male customers of these inf ected prostitutes are then going on to infect wives, girl friends and other female partners, who in turn infect other male partners, etc., etc., etc. One startling report which came out of the recent Inter-national Conference on AIDS, held in San Fr ancisco, was that 25% of AIDS infected men in a recent study who engage in oral intercourse with males, identified themselves as hetero- or bisexual Ñ meaning that 25% of the gay men may also be infecting women in heterosexual encounters. B. AIDS IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN AIDS is now spreading rapidly among women Ñ largely because of heterosexual contacts, not because of contact with gays or I.V. drug users. In New York City, 1% of the Black and Hispanic women giving birth are infected. Among those applying for U.S. military service in 1990, men and women infected with AIDS are now in equal numbers. Women now account for 10% of all AIDS cases in America and that percentage is rising rapidly. AIDS is now the leading cau se of death for women between the ages of 20 to 40 in large American cities, Western Europe, and Equatorial Africa, according to the London based journal The Lancet. In these cities, infant and child deaths from AIDS are now 30% above normal. The r eport indicated that over 1 million uninfected children will be orphaned over the next few years in these cities as their parents die of AIDS. The World Health Organization says that at least 3 million women and children worldwide will die of AIDS in the 1990s (500,000 women and children died of AIDS in the 1980s). Other European research teams believe that 3 million women and chi ldren in Africa alone will die in the next year or two. The National AIDS Prevention Institute has predicted that by 1991, one out of every 10 U.S. pediatric beds will be occupied by a child with AIDS. WHO recently reported that in Latin America, A IDS is now infecting men and women in equal numbers (i.e., the African pattern), while in some Latin cities the rate of AIDS infection in pregnant women is up to 10%. C. TEENAGE SEX LEADING TO TEENAGE AIDS OR AIDS IN THE EARLY TWENTIES In young people between the ages of 15 and 24, AIDS deaths have increased 100-fold between 1981 and Õ87. About 21% of people now developing AIDS in the U.S. are in their 20s. That means they were probably infected in their teens. AIDS researchers and health officials are deeply concerned about the rapid spread of AIDS among U.S. teenagers today. AIDS infection among teenagers has increased by 40% over the past tw o years with many large cities such as New York and Miami having 1% of their 15 and 16 year old teenagers already infected. Among Black and Hispanic teenagers, the AIDS infection rates range up to 7%. AIDS infection among U.S. teenagers is now spre ading faster than among any group except homosexuals. AIDS is spreading equally fast between male and female teenagers (according to studies of 17 and 18 year old U.S. military recruits), indicating that heterosexual and not homosexual sex is the primary risk factor in this group. AIDS researc hers say that conditions are ripe for the virus to spread among U.S. teenagers because of their high level of sexual activity, their multiple partners, and their limited use of condoms (all factors in the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa). This is tru e for upper and middle class teenagers as well. Covenant House, which helps teenage runaways living on the street in New York, found that 7% of 1,800 surveyed were AIDS infected. The Hetrich- Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth estimates that 10-15% of the street teenagers it has co unseled have tested positive for AIDS, but that the number is probably much higher because most teenagers who are counseled have not been tested. The CDC estimates that 20% of the men and 25% of the women now testing positive for AIDS are in their 20s. Two to three times more 21 year olds than 15 year olds are AIDS infected (i.e., up to 3% of 21 year olds are now infected with the vir us). Since the time between infection with the AIDS virus and development of the AIDS disease is typically 5-10 years, the CDC has concluded that most of these new aids cases were contracted through sexual encounters as teenagers. Because of the le ngthy latency of the virus, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of teenagers continue to infect themselves completely unaware that they are passing the disease on to their sexual partners, girl or boyfriends or dates. It shows up in their 20s bu t was caught in the teenage years. (The American College Health Association now admits that over 25,000 U.S. college students carry the AIDS virus. (Considering the lack of testing, the actual number could be 10 times as high). That promiscuity and unbridled sex among American teenagers is rampant is obvious. The average American teenager loses his or her virginity at 16. The CDC says one in six U.S. teenagers contracts a sexually transmitted disease each year Ñ there are currently 2 1/2 million ÒreportedÓ cases of STDs among U.S. teenagers each year, as well as nearly a million unintended teenage pregnancies annually. In most areas of America, 60-80% of U.S. teenagers are sexually active. The CDC says tha t one in six high school girls has had four sexual partners. There are over one million teenage runaways living on the streets in America today and health officials believe that almost 100% of this group is sexually active. The incidence of AIDS in fections in this group is very high, according to the National Cancer Institute. AIDS experts say that typical adolescent denial is coupled with teenagersÕ tendency to deny their risk of AIDS infection because they seldom see someone their own age with AIDS. Teenagers are a prime example of a group that does not look 5-1 0 years ahead. Teenagers who have become infected with the AIDS virus say that they were not concerned at the time they became infected and gave no thought to Òsafe sexÓ practices or abstinence. Dr. William Campbell Douglass wrote in his book, AIDS - The End of Civilization: "Because of the sexual promiscuity of our young people, AIDS will spread like the plague through our youth. The answer of the professional educators: more sex education. It makes about as much sense as teaching kids how to use needles ÒsafelyÓ and how to snort cocaine in order to reduce drug addiction. Sex education was a stupid idea. Now weÕre going to pay for it through the devastation of our childre n. How many of our children are AIDS positive? Nobody knows because nobody is testing Ñ we wonÕt know for 5-10 years Ñ until they start dying. Teen AIDS is a ticking time bomb.Ó D. AIDS AMONG DOCTORS, DENTISTS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL The Journal of the American Medical Association says that more than 4,500 health care workers in the U.S. are reported to have AIDS, including a number of physicians and surgeons. Many are still practicing with little or no restrictions under loose, largely voluntary CDC guidelines which do not require the doctor to reveal his own AIDS infection to his patient. Had the Florida dentist discussed above revealed his AIDS infection t o his patient before extracting her teeth, she would probably not be dying today. The American Dental Association, however, in a self-serving effort to protect its dental constituency, says that reporting about AIDS infected dentists Òdoes not serve the best interest of the public and the profession.Ó Surgery is becoming a high risk profession for surgeons and surgical nurses, who often accidentally prick themselves with needles during surgery. Doctors and nurses at San Francisco General Hospital were accidentally exposed to blood in 84 o f 1,307 operations which were studied (i.e., 6.4%). Contaminated blood would have gone beneath the skin in 22 procedures Ñ or 1.7% of the 1,300 operations. Unfortunately for the 22 surgeons or nurses so inflicted, all are now dying of AIDS. Dr. Lorraine Day, until recently the Orthopedic Chief at San Francisco General Hospital, does not practice ÒunsafeÓ sex or use intravenous drugs. And yet the New England Journal of Medicine predicts that her chance of becoming AIDS infected within 5 years is 50/50 if she remains in her profession. Health care workers make up 2.2% of the population, but account for an estimated 5.1% of all AIDS cases. Day, who acknowledged in late Õ89 that one in 10 of her patients had AIDS, said: ÒI almost got it FridayÓ (after a colleague stabbed her accidentally with a blood-soaked instrument). ÒI almost got stabbed clear through. We were working on a drug addict. Fortunately I had three pairs of gloves on, and it only went through two. Ev ery time that happens, it could be the end of my life. I donÕt know which stick is going to get me.Ó Day has said that she was stuck with a blood-contaminated object at least twice a month while at SFGH. Day has also pointed out that the AIDS viru s can enter the body through the skin Ñ especially if there are tiny cuts, chapped hands, or simply open sores. A number of medical workers have become AIDS infected in this way. Day has been attacked by gay rights groups (and indeed lost her position at SFGH) because she complained that the CDC has not researched whether AIDS can be transmitted via sweat, coughing, sneezing or microscopic airborne blood particles whi ch are generated during surgery. National Gay Rights Advocates attacked Dr. Day, saying that Òdiscrimination by health care workers is a major problem for AIDS victims,Ó and that ÒLorraine Day does not speak for all health care workers.Ó [EditorÕs note: As an additional indication as to the casual nature of AIDS transmission, a 21 year old was delivering an AIDS infected blood sample packaged for shipment. The package was not broken, nor was any direct contact with the bloo d made. The young man had had no contact with high risk groups. But he contracted AIDS nevertheless.] IV. THE MANY FORMS (AND FELLOW TRAVELERS) OF AIDS AIDS is rapidly mutating into hundreds of new viruses, while other related viruses or venereal diseases which help to spread the AIDS virus, such as Hepatitis B, Herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc. have exploded (i.e., quadrupled) in recent yea rs. By the end of 1985, two years after the AIDS virus was first discovered, more than 200 different strains had been isolated, each with a slightly different genetic makeup. By 1986, an entirely new virus was reported in West Africa named HIV-2. It differed from other known strains by more than 50%. In 1988, AIDS researchers at the University of Miami identified 17 different strains of AIDS in one AIDS patient and 9 strains in another. Sixteen months later, the researchers found an additional 13 strains in the second patient. Flossie W angstaal of the National Cancer Institute says a new AIDS mutant can arise every few days. Such mutations make the concept of ever finding a vaccine virtually impossible. In 1983, a formerly harmless poultry virus caused devastation in the state of Pennsylvania. While making a copy of its genetic material, the virus made a tiny error. Because of that error, it began producing a slightly altered virus which a llowed the normally benign organism to spread beyond its usual residence in chickenÕs lungs and intestines. It had lived there for probably thousands of years causing chickens no harm. But soon it was burrowing into other parts of the birdsÕ bodies, including the nervous system, where it multiplied rapidly and began to cause a serious disease. With its newly-acquired virulence, this otherwise mild-mannered alien influenza virus went wild. Before the epidemic ended six months later, more than 17,000,000 chickens were dead Ñ all because of a minuscule molecular mutation. The 1983 chicken population in Pennsylvania is like the world as it is at this moment,Ó said Robert G. Webster, a virologist and molecular biologist in Memphis, Tennessee. ÒWhat would we have done if this virus had occurred in humans? Ther e are millions of us ÔchickensÕ just waiting to be infected.Ó Such fears are certainly not new to virologists. We should all ponder the 1918 flu epidemic that, because of a mutant strain, wiped out an estimated 20,000,000 people on this earth. The emergence of the AIDS virus is seen as probably the gr eatest plague in the history of the world. A. SUPERFAST AIDS Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center have discovered an AIDS-like virus in monkeys that can kill in about a week. This new sudden-death monkey virus is a retro-virus in the same family of viruses as the HIV virus. There are many simion immuno-deficiency viruses (SIV) but this one is of special interest because of its extreme lethality. Scientists at the Yerkes Center are concerned that similar strains of the fast-killing AIDS viruses could be developing within humans. Patricia Faltz, of the Yerkes Center, said, Òthe genetic makeup of this quick-killing SIV virus indicates that it acquired its lethality through Ôsubtle gradual mutations.Õ Therefore, the possibility that lethal AIDS varia nts exist with properties similar to the SIV virus must be considered.Ó [EditorÕs note: The outbreak of Legionnaires Disease Ñ a lethal, fast- killing virus Ñ which broke out in Philadelphia, California and elsewhere during the 1980s and left dozens of victims dead within a few hours of infection.] B. THE EXPLOSION OF HEPATITIS-B The CDC has recently reported that Hepatitis-B is now spreading rapidly among non-drug using heterosexuals. This is a grave finding. Hepatitis-B and AIDS go together. It is believed that 70-80% of homosex uals carry Hepatitis-B and almost 60-80% have AIDS although they have not yet all been tested, or tested positive. It may be that rampant Hepatitis-B is a surface indication of rampant, but undiagnosed AIDS. Hepatitis-B has an incubation period of 6 weeks to 6 months, while the AIDS incubation period can be 3 1/2 years or more before the blood tests positive. There are about 250-300,000 new cases of Hepatitis-B reported in the U.S. each year, with 8,000 annual deaths from the virus. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that homosexual men practicing oral intercourse ar e 9 times more susceptible to getting Hepatitis-B than AIDS. But the former seems to be setting the stage for infection by the latter. Insight Magazine reported (12/18/89) that global health records show 300 million people carry Hepatitis-B worldwi de. Up to 90% of all S.E. Asians are carriers of the highly infectious disease which destroys the liver. [EditorÕs note: Dr. William Campbell Douglass believes that vaccination or inoculation with Hepatitis-B vaccine is helping to spread that disease and make those so vaccinated highly vulnerable to AIDS infection. It should be remembered that hundreds of people died from CDC flu vaccinations over a decade ago.] C. HERPES EPIDEMIC More than 25 million Americans are infected with the genital herpes virus, according to a recent study (although many do not exhibit the painful, itchy sores associated with the disease). Exposure to the genital herpes virus is believed to serve as a risk marker for other sexually-transmitted diseases, and may pose a biological risk for infection with AIDS. The study indicated that 20.22% of Americans between ages 30 and 44 tested positive. Blacks had a rate of i nfection almost twice that of Whites, with nearly 65% of Black women (age 30 to 59) found to be infected. Nearly 20% of White women of the same age were infected. D. VENEREAL WARTS Venereal warts can be transmitted from towels and tanning tables. Dr. Ralph Richort, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, reports that they have been able to recover the virus from doctorsÕ instruments, glov es, and even plumes of smoke. The Mayo Clinic reported seven cases, all from tanning parlors. It you can get this venereal disease from tanning tables, you can get it from toilet seats. E. AIDS AND TUBERCULOSIS AIDS is triggering a global explosion of tuberculosis, and at least 2 million people are already infected with the microbes that cause both diseases, Dr. Peter Eriki, a WHO official, recently reported. Dr. Eriki t old a large AIDS Conference in San Francisco in July that 1.7 billion people (1/3 of the worldÕs population) are infected with tuberculosis bacilli. Most have no symptoms, but 20 million are sick with TB and 3 million die each year, Dr. Eriki said. AIDS infected persons become very susceptible to TB and often die of tuberculosis. Progressively more and more AIDS infectees are being found to have TB and vice versa. In some parts of Africa, up to 70% of the population are TB infected wh ile 55% have been exposed to AIDS. V. AIDS AROUND THE WORLD A. AIDS IN AFRICA Scientists examining satellite photos taken over Central Africa have noticed a curious phenomenon. Several formerly prosperous villages in Zaire had been deserted and bush was already encroaching on the roads leading to ghostly circles of abandoned dwellings. Further investigation revealed that AIDS was the monster that had caused the villagers to flee in panic into the bush Ñ leaving their dying behind them. In Uganda, WHO researchers have found more deserted ÒAIDS villages.Ó In many villages one in every four inhabitants had already died and nearly all those still alive were inflicted with the Òslim disease,Ó (i.e., AIDS). The Uganda governmen t admits that 1 million out of 17 million Ugandans are infected with the virus. The actual number is probably 5-8 times greater. In Uganda, health authorities recently tested an entire high school class for the virus Ñ 40% of the students tested po sitive. Kenyan prostitutes have been tested and found to be 100% infected. When a man dies in rural Zambia, tribal tradition demands that one of his male relatives must have sex with the widow Ñ the woman must be ÒcleansedÓ or she will be haunted by the spirit of the dead man. In a country where up to 30% of the pe ople are thought to be AIDS virus carriers, the implications are frightening. One routine testing of blood donors in Zambia found that 18% of donors were infected with AIDS. A VD clinic reported that 33% of their patients had AIDS, and in the Zambi an capital of Lusaka, 23% of the population are reported to be carrying the AIDS virus. An expatriate Zambian doctor says, ÒWe test those who are ill and the results show that 50% have the virus. Among the soldiers the rate is virtually 100%; AIDS could wipe out the entire Zambian army in 10 years.Ó Zambian President Kenneth K uandaÕs son has died of AIDS, as well as three of his cabinet ministers, yet, as in almost all African countries, Zambian leaders, to protect ZambiaÕs image, reputation, tourism, etc. deny that they have anything more than a negligible AIDS problem. Western agencies believe that AIDS infects 25% of the Zimbabwean population, although the Mugabe government claims the problem is negligible. The Zimbabwean economy faces collapse by the end of the decade. Malawi has 30-50% of its populatio n infected and faces extinction as a country during the 1990s. In Zaire, 27% of the unmarried women carry the virus. Incredibly, throughout Africa, there is the surprisingly widespread belief that AIDS is an invention of the church aimed at curbing sexual freedom, and that AIDS is a White manÕs disease. The most frightening projection of all has come from WHO which believes that the AIDS virus could claim half of AfricaÕs population within 10 years. European researchers believe 50-150 million out of AfricaÕs 500 million people are already i nfected with the virus. The South African AIDS Economic Research Institute predicts that disease will cause a huge population vacuum in Central Africa by the mid-1990s, causing all mineral production to cease. This is the grotesque picture of a con tinent dying of AIDS. [EditorÕs note: A new strain of AIDS was recently found in Zaire that kills a cell 1,000 times faster than the standard AIDS virus. A Zairian caught the strain, gave it to his wife, who gave it to her lover. They all died in one third of t he normal time it takes to die from AIDS.] B. AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA AIDS is wiping out South AfricaÕs Black population, and within two years (by 1992) 18% of the African population between the ages of 15 and 60 will have the disease. Incredibly, AIDS virus infections in South Afric a are doubling every 6.4 months. The AIDS Economic Research Unit predicts that by the year 2000, 50-70% of Black South Africans will be dead or dying from AIDS. AERU says that by 1995, pediatric AIDS will have halted South AfricaÕs population growt h and that in a best scenario, 50% of South AfricaÕs Blacks would be infected with AIDS between 1996 and 2000. At worst, 70% would have AIDS by 2000. AIDS has come into South Africa via truck routes from Central Africa, where 92% of the truck drivers have tested AIDS positive. These drivers infect prostitutes in Durban who infect Zulus in Kwazulu and throughout the Natal Province. AIDS h as also come into the RSA via hundreds of thousands of migrant mine workers from Malawi, Mozambique and the Black states to the north. it has also entered via ANC terrorists stationed in Zambia. Black South African men and women refuse to use condoms or practice abstinence from extra- or pre-marital sex. They look at government AIDS education efforts as a way of controlling the Black population. At the rate that South African Black s are presently copulating and spreading the disease, within 25 years the entire Black population of South Africa could be 80-100% gone. C. AIDS IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA One out of every 200 men in Mexico City between 25 and 45 years of age is infected with the AIDS virus. Overall, Mexico has the second highest per capita rate of AIDS infection in the Western Hemisphere with AIDS cases now exploding exponentially. For over a decade, millions of illegal Mexicans have been pouring into the U.S. Ñ bringing their AIDS infections with them. During the immigration amnesty of 1988, a Los Angeles doctor was hired by the U.S. Immigration Service to test illegals applying for amnesty for AIDS. He was shocked to find that 5% of those tested were AIDS infected. The doctor was told by the CDC: ÒYour figures are impossible,Ó and ÒDonÕt bother calling us again.Ó In Brazil, where AIDS is the worst in the hemisphere, and second worst in the world, and where AIDS experts widely believe that insects can transmit AIDS, the AIDS infection rate is doubling every six months (as compared to very 12 months in the U.S.). A lethal combination of liberal sexual practices, widespread poverty, highly infected blood banks, and a highly inadequate health care system has made Brazil a disaster area for AIDS. To make matters worse, a deadly new strain of the vir us (AIDS II) is breaking out in Brazil. The crisis in Brazil is compounded by the fact that Brazil has a very high incidence of bisexual men, and they are already 28% infected with the virus. [EditorÕs note: Another ominous development in Latin America is that the period from infection to disease, and then from disease to death, is about half the time experienced in the United States and Europe. Also, throughout Latin America, t he onset of AIDS has brought about a dramatic increase in syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, and dengue fever (which has increased 1,000-fold in Mexico over the past 15 years).] D. AIDS IN GREAT BRITAIN British Health Minister David Mellor warns that 25% of LondonÕs homosexuals carry the AIDS virus. Warning that the British AIDS epidemic is not slowing down, Mellor says that 40% of the AIDS carriers in London hav e been infected during heterosexual intercourse. In Ireland, AIDS is now doubling every seven months. E. AIDS IN CATS Researchers at the Nippon Veterinary College in Tokyo have found that out of 3,000 cats examined in the Tokyo area, almost 30% were found to be infected with feline AIDS. These were all outdoor cats and presumably the AIDS was spread through sexual intercourse and through cat fights. VI. GOVERNMENT DECEPTION AND MISMANAGEMENT OF THE AIDS CRISIS The severity of the AIDS plague in America is being covered up by the U.S. government and the CDC, and the disease is being spread even faster by the governmentÕs bizarre behavior in protecting the Òhuman rights and privacyÓ of the infected ( the already dying) instead of those who have not yet become infected. And the governmentÕs Òsafe sexÓ campaign has misled tens of millions of people into believing that if condoms are used, AIDS cannot be transmitted. A. THE AIDS COVER-UP The longer the truth is obscured from the public, and the greater the multitude of innocent people who die most horribly as a result, the more ferocious will be the explosion of hatred and revenge against the scient ists and government officials guilt of perpetrating the deception.Ó Dr. John Seale, British AIDS Researcher. The U.S. government and the Center for Disease Control appear to be deliberately understating the number of people in America who are AIDS infected, and the growing severity of the epidemic. Their only discernable motive for the cover-up wo uld seem to be to avoid a panic. But the understating of the crisis and the disinformation associated with it is putting tens of millions of complacent Americans, who would otherwise take steps to protect themselves, at risk. In 1986 the CDC (in Atlanta), the official government watchdog of AIDS, reported that there was between 1 and 1 1/2 million people in the U.S. infected with AIDS. Today, the CDC claims that the total number of Americans infected with the AID S virus is still 1.7 million Ñ almost unchanged in four years. Virtually all other AIDS statistics in the private sector make the present CDC numbers appear ridiculous. Even the CDC admits that AIDS has been growing at over 8% per month Ñ which is doubling each year. At that growth rate, the total number infected in 1990 (using the CDCÕs 1986 numbers) would be over 10 million people. Private AIDS researchers estimate that for every documented case of AIDS, there are 100 million people who ca rry the virus. That adds up to about 10 million infected Americans. AIDS deaths are being vastly under-reported because of the stigma associated with AIDS, because of pressure by families, and because of no laws (with teeth) to force a doctor to accurately report the cause of death. Many athletes and celebri ties who have died of AIDS are being reported as having died of cancer, pneumonia, TB, etc. For an excellent book on the AIDS cover-up, The AIDS Cover-up by Gene Antonio is recommended. B. CONDOMS DONÕT WORK The U.S. government, under ReaganÕs Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, began a campaign in the 1980s advocating so-called Òsafe sexÓ as the solution to the AIDS plague. They defined Òsafe sexÓ essentially as the use of a condom. There are several problems with this Òsafe sex via condomsÓ campaign, however: 1) Laboratory tests have revealed that four of the nationÕs most popular condom brands permit the AIDS virus to escape. The study, carried out by UCLA, conflicts with the governmentÕs AIDS prevention strategy which assumes that all condoms block the transmission of the AIDS virus with equal effectiveness. The AIDS virus is 0.20 to 0.25 micrometers in size (i.e., a quarter of a millionth of a millimeter) and can pass through the condom because it is smaller than the pores in the condom. Condoms have not stopped syphilis or pregnancy Ñ and they will not stop AIDS. 2) AIDS is transmitted via saliva and therefore via kissing Ñ which is an integral part of sexual activity. Evidence is growing rapidly that saliva may be more contagious than blood. Condoms do not stop kissing. 3) The governmentÕs entire Òsafe sex campaign via condomsÓ has actually encouraged more sexual activity (especially among teenagers). Many AIDS infected people now have sex using condoms without even telling their partners they are infected Ñ and then infect their partners via kissing or porous (leaky) condoms. C. AIDS CARRIERS CAN NOW LEGALLY IMMIGRATE TO THE U.S. Due to liberal and homosexual group pressure, the CDC has recommended the removal of travel and immigration restrictions for people infected with AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, and leprosy . Only people infected with tuberculosis are blocked from entry into America. The Bush Administration and the Immigration Department have lifted the restrictions and now millions of AIDS infected people from Europe, Africa, Haiti, Mexico and Latin America can no longer be banned from U.S. entry because they carry the AIDS virus or have the disease. This is the opposite of a quarantine, which has been used in past epidemics. D. U.S. GOVERNMENT PROTECTS AIDS INFECTED FOOD HANDLERS The U.S. government and several states have just ruled that it is illegal to not hire, or to fire a food handler because he (or she) has AIDS. (Remember, the AIDS virus can be transm itted via coughing, sneezing, or touching the food if the virus is on the hand.) The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported: ÒAn average of 10% of AIDS carriers reported to the San Francisco Department of Health were employed as food han dlers in public establishments...an estimated 60-70% of these food handlers were homosexual men.Ó It is now a crime not to hire a gay or an AIDS infected person for preparing or handling food. As the AIDS epidemic worsens, the restaurant business will go into a tailspin. E. DISPERSING AIDS TO SMALL TOWN AMERICA Ñ President BushÕs Commission on AIDS has recommended that because of the economic strain on big city hospitals, that AIDS infected patients, which cost an average of $800 per day in a hospital, be mo ved out of the cities and into small communities around the country. This relocation program is backed by most big city mayors and state officials who feel the fiscal and medical facility strain of the epidemic. So, the recommendation is to establish regional centers, or Ònetworks of care,Ó (i.e., AIDS treatment centers) across small-town Americna. This is government quarantining of the plague in reverse. The moving of hundreds of thousands of AIDS victims (many of who have bizarre moral/sexual lifestyles) into small towns across America simply guarantees the more rapid spread and a more qual distribution of the epidemic. F. GOVERNMENT COVER-UP OF THE DANGER IN THE BLOOD BANKS The U.S. government and the CDC have continually maintained that the U.S. blood banks are safe. That is a lie. With an incubation period of 3 1/2 to 4 years during which AIDS tests may be invalid (i.e., the test shows negative even though the AIDS infection is present and transferrable), AIDS infected blood is constantly being donated. Private studies indicated that a personÕs chances of becoming infected from a blood transfus ion in America today still range from one in ten to one in five. The CDC estimated in May Õ89 that 12,000 people living in the U.S. have been infected with AIDS via contaminated blood transfusions. (The number is about 20% higher today.) Homosexuals (AmericaÕs highest risk group) continue to sell plasma to blood collection centers. Dr. Lorraine Day was severely criticized by Bay Area gay groups for pointing out the danger of having blood donations in the predominantly gay Castro District of San Francisco. The Journal of the American Medical Assoc iation wrote (4/25/90) in a recent study that Òmore than 23% of 2,921 intravenous drug abusers contacted in the Baltimore area in 1988 and Õ89 said they had sold plasma or donated blood after they began injecting illegal drugs.Ó G. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES COWER BEFORE AND CATER TO THE GAY LOBBY Because of the alleged political clout of the homosexual lobby, America has foregone mandatory AIDS testing; quarantining; warnings by doctors, dentists or med ical personnel to patients that the former are AIDS infected; the blocking of AIDS victims from entering the U.S.; the blocking of AIDS infected persons from working around food, etc. The secrecy regarding AIDS infection which the homosexual lobby h as pushed to protect the Òhuman rightsÓ of the gays, has greatly facilitated the spread of the plague. For example, California has passed a law which makes it illegal to tell potential house buyers whether the seller does or does not have AIDS. As Lorraine Day found when she tried to warn medical workers of their danger at San Francisco General Hospital, the gay lobby is completely paranoid about exposure of most aspects of the disease. Their top agenda is to protect gay rights, no t to contain the disease. As Dr. Day pointed out, ÒTwenty years ago there were one thousand people advocating gay rights. Now there are 7,000 organizations advocating gay rights. Not only that, there are many homosexual and bisexual senators and congressmen who donÕt want to be tested. They donÕt want their wives tested. They want to remain in the closet. And a lot of heterosexual congressmen have paid off their political debts by hiring gay male assistants.Ó So because of homosexual influence at all government levels, the AIDS epidemic in America remains the only government protected plague in world history. VII. WHAT TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY FROM GETTING AIDS A few common sense precautions which you might take to lessen the chances of AIDS exposure for you and your family are: A. ONE MAN/ONE WOMAN Heterosexual relationships between one man and one woman is the best way to avoid sexual infection with the AIDS virus. Because of AIDS contamination of saliva, kissing strangers or people who do not have a 100% clean background can be a high risk activity. Traditional dating, kissing, necking, etc. can now be considered high risk activity for a teenager, and so the background and track record of those people teenagers date in high school or college (or when old er singles date or marry) should be known and should be very clean. B. AVOID HIGHLY CONGESTED AREAS - (i.e., crowded subways, enclosed areas with large crowds, etc.) as much as possible. As time goes by, it will become widely understood that coughing and sneezing (as with any other virus) can cause infectio n with the AIDS virus. The greater and more confined the crowd, the greater your exposure. C. WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY Wash your hands thoroughly before all meals, snacks, eating popcorn, sandwiches, etc. When in public places (i.e., airports, shopping centers, on buses, trains, sports stadiums, etc.) wash your hands frequent ly with hot water and soap and especially before touching your eyes, ears, nose, mouth or any other mucous membrane. This should also be done if you have shaken hands with other people. Always wash your hands before going to the toilet as well as a fter. Remember the AIDS virus can live on a dry surface for 10 days (probably longer). If an AIDS carrier sneezes on his hand, places that hand on a rail (i.e., an escalator) and you place your hand on that spot and then rub your eyes or put your f inger in your mouth, you may have just infected yourself with AIDS. Money can also be contaminated. D. ALWAYS COVER A TOILET SEAT WITH PAPER If the AIDS virus can survive for 10 days on a dry surface, it can survive on a toilet seat. Avoid direct contact between your skin and the seat. Flush the commode with your foot. E. AVOID RESTAURANTS THAT EMPLOY HIGH RISK GROUPS Homosexuals are frequently employed in restaurants as cooks, waiters, busboys, or food handlers. Try to ascertain which one employ gays and avoid these. A high percentage of such employee s (probably over half) are likely to already carry the virus and therefore to be infectious. Ethnic restaurants such as Arab, Chinese, Jewish, Japanese, etc. generally do not employ homosexuals and are probably safer. Waiters should be washing thei r hands between serving different customers and should be required to wash their hands frequently. It is now illegal for a restaurant not to hire a gay or an AIDS carrier, but it is not illegal for you to avoid that restaurant. F. DO NOT LET PEOPLE KISS YOUR CHILDREN OR YOU Friendly non-sexual greeting kisses should be avoided because of infected saliva. Instead, shake hands. G. AVOID PUBLIC HOT TUBS, STEAM BATHS, SAUNAS The AIDS virus can live in a warm, wet environment indefinitely. Hot tubs in exercise clubs or spas bubble the water, and often water will splash into a personÕs mouth or eyes Ñ it also soaks into small cuts or abrasions. In a steam bath, you breathe the steam. If an AIDS carrier has coughed or sneezed, that aerosol is in the steam for you to breathe. People sweat profusely in steam baths and saunas and if you contact wet or dry sweat that is infected, you could pick up the virus. H. USE GLOVES IN PUBLIC EXERCISE OR WEIGHT FACILITIES Weight lifters sweat and that sweat, wet or dry, on the weights or exercise equipment (i.e., Nautilus) can carry the infectious AIDS virus which you pick up on your own hands. A long s leeve sweatshirt is also advisable as well as the use of thongs in showers. I. AVOID PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS FREQUENTED BY HIGH RISK GROUPS OR LARGE CROWDS Chlorine will not kill the AIDS virus. Private swimming pools are preferable. J. AVOID SALAD BARS Everyone (including AIDS carriers) uses the same serving utensils and many salad bars are uncovered so that an infected AIDS carrier could cough or sneeze on the food. K. AVOID STICKING PENCILS, FINGERS OR OTHER OBJECTS IN YOUR MOUTH If you must, wash or boil them first. L. ALL MEAT SHOULD BE COOKED TO 169 DEGREES TO KILL ANY VIRUS If a cow is bitten by an AIDS infected mosquito, the virus can be in the meat. Likewise if a milk cow is bitten, the virus can be transmitted through the milk, just as a human motherÕs milk can transmit the AIDS virus to her baby. (Pasteurized milk is only heated to 142 degrees). M. IN HOTELS/MOTELS Ñ AVOID TAKING BATHS Ñ TAKE SHOWERS INSTEAD Bath tubs are often not well cleaned from the last occupant. N. AIRLINES TEND TO HAVE HIGH NUMBERS OF GAYS WORKING AS STEWARDS AND SERVING FOOD Either refrain from eating (the food is usually bad) or order a vegetarian meal in advance Ñ which usually comes wrapped in Saran Wrap. Forego ice in drinks. It is often touched by human hands. O. AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AVOID HIGH RISK TRANSMISSION AREAS Discos, night clubs, public swimming pools, jacuzzis, highly crowded areas such as subways, etc. Avoid sitting next to people who are coughing or sneezing repeatedly. P. A NUTRITIONAL DIET, VITAMINS AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS, ADEQUATE REST AND EXERCISE, REDUCTION OF STRESS AND GOOD HYGIENE Will help to keep the body detoxified and the immune system up. If your immune system is strong enough, you can be expo sed to the virus and not become infected. Q. SOURCES FOR KEEPING UP-TO-DATE ON THE AIDS EPIDEMIC Two excellent newsletters exist which monitor medical research and publications all over the world regarding the AIDS crisis. These two publications are a great way to stay up with mu ch of what is being written on AIDS all over the world. They are: The Cutting Edge and AIDS FAX. Both are published by Dr. William Campbell Douglass, P.O. Box 1568, Clayton, GA 30525, or call toll free 1-800-227-6269. Isolation from people is a form of protection from AIDS but is impractical. Nevertheless, as the virus takes on pandemic proportions, people in small towns, rural areas, or farms will be much safer than people in large cities. Associate wit h highly moral, straight, perhaps even highly religious individuals who have a very clean lifestyle. The risk of AIDS infections will be greatly reduced. And remember, you cannot count on the government, your doctor, or the medical system to protec t you from AIDS. They are in some ways as much a part of the problem as they are the solution. Use your own common sense precautions and pray for protection for you and your family. Lancet Report Footnotes: 1. Spire B, Dormont D, BarrŽ-Sinoussi F, Montagnier L, Chermann J.C. ÒInactivation of lymphadenopathy associated virus by heat, gamma rays, and ultraviolet light.Ó Lancet, 1985. 2. BarrŽ-Sinoussi F, Nugeyre MR, Girard M, Tron F, Chermann J.C. ÒLaboratory and scrological studies argue against possible transmission of AIDS by hepatitis B vaccine.Ó Lancet, 1985. 3. BarrŽ-Sinoussi F, Chermann J.C., Rey F, et al. ÒIsolation of a T- lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).Ó Science, 1983. 4. Spire B, BarrŽ-Sinoussi F, Montagnier L, et al. ÒInactivation of lymphadenopathy associated virus by chemical disinfectants.Ó Lancet, 1984.