Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Vin Suprynowicz and AIDS

Vin Suprynowicz has an interesting article about AIDS.

I am rather suspicious of the claim that HIV does not cause AIDS. Moreover, I seriously disagree with the idea that AIDS is not a contagious disease; if that were true, we couldn't have tracked it the way we did.

On the other hand, I find it eminently plausible that the incidence of AIDS in Africa is exaggerated due to loose definitions.
Not that there isn't a disease called AIDS caused by HIV, but it is not unlikely that a lot of Africans are misdiagnosed. Africa does not have the same medical facilities that we have in the U.S., and I doubt that there was ever a well-crafted epidemiology explaining who gave it to whom.

That is all.


That is all.

No comments: