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Whether buying or selling, this time of year gives you your best opportunity to gain from your real estate investment! Call me today for a no-obligation market analysis, or a preview of available homes! SUSAN J. WILL Sales Associate 635-6211 just out V 16V October 1989 have been shown in the lab to increase immune system decline “two-to-four-fold” in the HIV-infected. He also expects that human hief U.S. AIDS researcher Dr. Robert Gallo confirmed September 8 that he told herpes virus six [HHV-6] is an important a British newspaper in late June that only AIDS co-factor, but has not yet produced data about 33 percent of those exposed to Human to back up his theory. Gallo agreed that studies measuring the Immunodeficiency Virus [HIV-1] will effect of drugs such as AZT on immune develop AIDS. system decline should also look at which Gallo — who is credited with co subjects are infected with which co-factors. discovering HIV — was quoted in the July 1 The recent highly-touted AZT studies issue of London, England’s The Pink Paper considered neither AIDS co-factors nor HIV [TPP], in the context of criticizing a British ad variants. campaign that states “the only difference Analysis: Why Is All This So Interesting? between HIV and AIDS is time.” Gallo’s theories about HIV variants, AIDS “We have no way of predicting how many co-factors, and what percentage of those with people who are infected are going to develop HIV will develop AIDS are obviously AIDS,” Gallo told TPP. “The best data today important because they give HIV-positives argues for about one-third but there are so hope and raise legitimate questions about many variants out there, don’t start projecting treatment of those who show minimal or no that you know the future.” signs of illness. In a September 8 telephone interview, But his ideas are also significant in light of Gallo termed the TPP news report “reasonably ongoing dissent to the U.S. government’s (and accurate,” saying “there are so many variants Gallo’s) insistence for the past five years that [of HIV] that it is impossible to say that a HIV-1 is the sole cause of AIDS. hundred percent of them are going to lead to The New York Native, a gay newspaper, lethality. In fact. I’d be very surprised if every Berkeley professor Dr. Peter Duesberg, New variant caused AIDS in an individual’s normal York doctor Joseph Sonnabend, PWA activist lifetime. Very few bugs do lead to a hundred Michael Callen, British author Jad Adams and percent lethality. others have argued (in complicated presen “Look at HIV-2,” Gallo continued. “Of the tations that will not be reproduced here) that thousands of people HIV-2 infected, you can HIV is not the cause of AIDS. count on a few fingers the ones that have developed any kind of immune deficiency.... Several dissidents believe Gallo and the And you can look at HIV-2 as just an extreme government are clinging to the HIV theory to variant of HIV-1. So, if HIV-2 is so much less save political face and protect scientific efficient [at causing disease], what about other reputations. They say evidence exists that variants that are less variable than the HIV is not the whole AIDS story — if, in fact, prototype HIV-1? any of the story. “I don’t want everybody who is antibody It is thus significant when Gallo speaks of positive to think, ‘Holy shit, it’s hopeless,’ ” non-lethal HIV variants and/or AIDS co Gallo added. "It could be a third, a half [who factors — other viruses besides HIV that may develop AIDS] — the point is that no one can be part of the AIDS story. predict what every variant of this virus is Although no one has proved that HIV-1 is going to do.” not the cause of AIDS, the dissidents’ ideas Implications for ATT remain interesting as long as many HIV- Gallo was asked whether recent studies positives remain healthy. showing that AZT slows HIV infection should And the suggestions that there could be a have taken into account that all variants of "conspiracy” to promote the "HIV myth” are HIV are not equally lethal. “Should people intriguing because media reports have exposed to not-particularly-lethal variants,” he previously questioned Gallo’s personal was asked, “rush out and begin taking a rather integrity. toxic drug?” Beginning with Randy Shilts’ book And “That’s an extremely good question,” The Band Played On and continuing Gallo responded. “I would base it on odds. If I sporadically thereafter, reporters have hinted were antibody-positive, I would take AZT the that Gallo did not in fact discover HIV, but day I learned I was infected, if l could afford rather swiped the virus from the Pasteur it. Too high a percentage are suffering too Institute in Paris. much from this virus. I would take low-dose More recently, reports appeared suggesting [AZT] and combine it with something and unethical behavior by Gallo’s lab associates gamble on that, rather than gambling on — this time centering on alleged improper having a relatively innocuous strain of the business dealings with commercial labs. virus.” At last June’s Fifth International Co factors Make HIV More Dangerous Conference on AIDS, Gallo promised to write Another increasingly prominent a book proving definitively dial HIV-1 by development in Gallo’s thinking centers itself can cause AIDS. Although this won’t around secondary viruses that, when present answer the question of who first isolated the along with HIV-1, speed up damage to the virus, it will be a valuable and overdue addi immune system. tion to the 10-year-old AIDS/HIV story. Gallo says cytomegalovirus and HTLV-1 ▼ BY SERVING THE LEGAL NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: • WILLS & ESTATES • ACCIDENTS Sc INJURIES • BUSINESS LAW AND LITIGATION (NO RECOVERY, NO FEE) • REAL ESTATE • CRIMINAL LAW & DUII • DIVORCE AND CUSTODY • LITIGATION IN ALL STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS REX W O C K N E R C “Draw Yourself Out!” A N N H IN D S , art m edium the REALTOR you tell your friends about” Dr. Robert Gallo 274-9591