HIV/AIDS — The Facts and The Fiction
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and Definitions
Preface
New York City – The Epicenter of the AIDS Epidemic
The First Legitimate AIDS Clusters
The First 1000 AIDS Cases
AIDS Migrates Overseas
AIDS Migrates to Europe
Denmark
West Germany
United Kingdom
France
Hemophilia (Factor VIII)
AIDS Migrates to Africa
AIDS Migrates to the Caribbean
Haiti
The Other Caribbean
The AIDS Epidemic Comes of Age
The Monkey Fallacy
The Contaminated Monkey Theory
The Homegrown American Monkey Virus
The Other American Monkey Viruses
HIV’s American Relatives
The Monkey Fallacy Propagates
The Chimpanzee Has No Clothes
The African Fallacy
The First African Patients – Diagnosed in Belgium
From Belgium to Zaire
From Belgium to Rwanda
The Literary Trilogy
HIV Antibody Testing – An Avalanche of False-Positives
The Avalanche
The Lack of Avalanche
The Pitfalls of Testing
Antigens
Technical Issues
Concurrent Infections
The WHO Provisional Surveillance Definition
African versus Classical AIDS
Clinical Presentation
Aggressive Kaposi’s sarcoma
Slim Disease
Disease Transmission
Missing Infections
Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)
Strongyloidiasis
Amoebiasis
Kaposi’s Sarcoma
Outliers – The Exception as the Rule
Prominent Outliers
Other Types of Immunodeficiency
When Hyperbole Equals Hypothesis
And then came HIV-2
Errata & Updates
Glossary
References
Appendix – The Earliest Purported Cases of AIDS
