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A control study of 101 blood donors who had been vaccinated against influenza and 191 matched controls showed that recent inoculation with any brand of influenza vaccine was significantly associated with a false positive screening assay for HIV antibodies. Guidelines of both Johns Hopkins and the New York State Department of Health list influenza vaccination as a known cause of indeterminate results on Western blotting for HIV antibodies...
By Christine Maggiore
“We've now gone from ‘HIV is thought to cause AIDS,’
to something even more uncertain with the newly approved HIV test:
‘Published data indicate A STRONG CORRELATION between the
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and a retrovirus REFERRED
TO as HIV."
By Rupa Chinai
“An HIV positive test usually means a ‘death sentence.’
But AIDS counselors and doctors are finding that a positive result
is fraught with problems and can sometimes be false. The validity
of the HIV test hence needs re-examination, they say…”
By David Crowe
"Tests indicate you may have a chance of being infected. There
is a probability that, if infected, you will become ill within the
next 10 years and a possibility that you never will. If you take
the drugs, there is a significant risk of great decline in your
quality of life, and a possibility that the drugs will kill you."
By Christine Maggiore
“Contrary to the statement that the new test can tell people
‘whether they are infected,’ the FDA has not approved
the quick test (or any other HIV test) for actually diagnosing HIV
infection…”
By Christine Maggiore
“A new article in Popular Science explains how allegedly accurate
HIV tests can be dead wrong when performed on people with no risk
factors…”
By Celia Farber
“The difference between thinking you will live and thinking
you will die often depends on an HIV antibody test that is shockingly
unreliable. The case of a 3-year-old boy in North Carolina proves
that even hospitals have to admit this now…”
By Matt Irwin, MD
“A 20 to 40% rate of indeterminate on Western Blot, a test
that supposedly determines life or death, is outrageously high.
Yet few medical experts question whether it is appropriate to use
it for diagnosing HIV infection. This is only the tip of the iceberg
regarding the problems with HIV tests…”
By Steven Ransom
“When the gloss is stripped away, the “100% accuracy”
confidently trumpeted for the new Smart Test is completely untrue.
As with any other rapid test, it might show positive results on
patients with other diseases or with high amounts of non-specific
antibodies…”
By Valendar Turner, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine,
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
“An antibody test, even if repeated and found positive a thousand
times, does not prove the presence of a viral infection. The failure
to verify the antibody tests against the gold standard of virus
isolation is a serious omission of scientific method…”
By Liam Scheff
“HIV-antibody tests actually measure a patient's antibody
reaction to a series of proteins that are thought to be components
of HIV. But none of the proteins used in the test kits are unique
or specific to HIV…”
List and references compiled by Christine Johnson
"Most people are surprised to learn that you don't need to have HIV in order to test HIV positive. More than 60 factors 'all documented in the medical literature or acknowledged by test manufacturers' are known to elicit the production of antibodies that can cause false positive results on HIV antibody tests, even in people with no possible exposure to HIV and no potential risks for AIDS."
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