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6 • January 1989
Salvatore Catapano's cure is simple — multiple injections of
typhoid vaccine to help stimulate the immune system
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very day newspaper reports, medical
reports, government reports proffer new
‘ nope” to persons with AIDS. Headlines
scream about this drug, that doctor, these
vitamins. But one man. ignoring the hysteria
and homophobia, plodded away meticulously
and seems to have found an AIDS treatment for
which the world has been waiting.
Salvatore Catapano didn’t discover his
treatment in the research labs of the National
Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease
Control, but rather, he discovered it in the
basement laboratory of his Long Island home.
Like his laboratory, Catapano’s cure is simple
enough — multiple injections of typhoid
vaccine to help stimulate the immune system.
Catapano discovered the vaccine’s immuno-
stimulating properties as a result of his cancer
research.
According to a report in Spin magazine,
when Catapano first heard about the AIDS
virus, he refused to believe that a biochemically
inactive virus could cause death. Catapano —
who spent 40 years testing and treating
syphilitics — believed the immune suppression
in AIDS patients not to be viral but bacterial. He
maintained the suppression was caused by late
staging syphilis and worsened by multiple ex
posures and the misapplication of antibiotics
and radiation. According to his hypothesis,
HIV serves merely as a marker for severe
immune suppression, induced in this case by
syphilis.
Syphilis camouflages itself well. Before the
advent of antibiotics, skin lesions, rashes,
strange pneumonias, and dementia were
common, documented symptoms of late
staging syphilis. Cause of death among most of
these syphilitics was tuberculosis — an
opportunistic infection.
Now, nationwide, some 300 persons with
AIDS are following Catapano’s protocol, 200
of whom are being treated by Catapano himself,
in conjunction with Dr. Miguel Cima. Only one
of the 200 patients Catapano and Cima have
treated has died: a man who chose to stop eating
when admitted to the hospital.
Once the immune system is restored with the
typhoid vaccine, a course of penicillin (used in
the treatment of syphilis) should bring the AIDS
patient into remission. Catapano qualifies his
work by stating that “ to finish the treatment
doesn't mean that someone will never be sick
again, never have pneumonia or an infection.
But, with their immune system restored, they
will be able to handle it as they should.”
Caution: those repeatedly reinfected with
syphilis should not expect to live, no matter
what course of treatment is used, warns
Catapano.
Physicians across the country, although
skeptical about the syphilis-AIDS link, are
reporting a fascinating discovery which
confirms Catapano’s theory: after approxi
mately 15 shots of the typhoid vaccine, a
number of AIDS patients who had tested
negative for syphilis began to manifest classic
symptoms of the disease, usually the distinctive
roseola rash. Consequently, the patients test
positive for syphilis. After following the
prescribed penicillin course, the symptoms dis
appear and the patient’s tests become negative.
Catapano’s protocol is patented — one of
only three American patents ever granted for
AIDS treatment. The patent states: * i t has been
found that a complete immunization and remis
sion of a person afflicted with AIDS may be
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achieved by the administration of typhoid vac
cine with no observed toxicity.” Word of the
protocol’s success has spread, and doctors in
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas,
Cincinnati, Washington, D .C ., Miami, New
York, Indianapolis, and Chesapeake, Virginia
are licensed to use the protocol.
Currently, there are no Oregon physicians
following the Catapano protocol, according to
Mimi Luther of CAP. Not surprisingly, CAP
remains neutral as to the protocol’s effective
ness. On the other hand, doctors at Oregon
Health Sciences University (OHSU) express
skepticism, but are willing to admit the theory
might be valid. Because there are no published
studies documenting Catapano’s protocol,
doctors have only been able to look at the
situation superficially.
Dr. Mark Loveless conducts studies for
OHSU’s Infectious Disease Department and
feels that the lack of good scientific investiga
tion techniques within the field of immuno-
stimulation makes any treatment — whether it’s
the typhoid vaccine, the polio vaccine, or a
plethora of other immuno-stimulating drugs —
very dangerous.
“ Often stimulating the immune system also
stimulates HIV, causing vims overactivity,
which is ultimately detrimental. I find a study
automatically deficient if it doesn’t incorporate
monitoring of HIV activity.” (Catapano’s
patients — with their increased T-cells and
apparent remissions — appear well, but only a
few are re-tested for HIV infection and
Catapano doesn’t release the results.) “ I don’t
want to discourage people,” continues Love
less, “ but what looks good, what sounds
rational, may not work. I remain hopeful, but
skeptical. I don’t think that persons with AIDS
should be rushing off to their doctors to get
typhoid injections.
“ A few years ago, Isoprinosine was
considered the ‘magic’ cure, persons with
AIDS flocked to Mexico in order to get the
drug. Now we’ve [OHSU] just completed a
scientifically valid study which proves the drug
is ineffective — another case of a rational-
sounding treatment not working.”
At this point, persons with AIDS need to
decide for themselves; the apparent remission
of patients treated with typhoid vaccine and also
the lack of toxicity (unlike AZT) make the treat
ment appealng. The saga of Isoprinosine and
Loveless’s warning must make one stop and
wonder, though. “ I was tired of having
my patients die,” said one Los Angeles
physician. “ This stuff works. That's what I
care about .”
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