HIV - AIDS Testing Challenged Again

The test kits used to determine “HIV positive” status in patients are deeply flawed - they were developed on the basis of faulty scientific methodology and assumptions and are without value in determining whether a person suffers from “HIV Aids”, alleges Kim Marie Bannon in a civil suit filed under the Consumer Protection Act of the State of Kansas, US.

The legal action against the makers of Aids test kits CALYPTE BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION and ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION was filed more than a year ago, on 12 April 2004 in the Sedgwick County District Court by Dennis Webb of Wichita Kansas.

At the base of the suit is the scientific mishandling of the Aids crisis from the very beginning, when on April 23, 1984, the then US Health Secretary Margaret Heckler announced at a press conference that the “probable” cause of AIDS had been found.

A controversy between Gallo and Montagnier distracted us from the fact that the “virus” thought to cause immune deficiency had never been unequivocally isolated.

Neither has anyone explained in scientific terms how the virus, which cannot be found in large numbers of immune deficient individuals, causes the illness.

Neville Hodgkinson has written up the history for us to follow.

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