Recent AIDS Interview With Researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer MD
Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, lead researcher in a recent bacterial AIDS study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, here questions whether HIV is a virus.
(PRWEB) June 29, 2005 -- Booksandauthors.net: Dr. Broxmeyer, as a physician,
What brought you into the AIDS arena with AIDS: What The Discoverers of HIV
Never Admitted and your accompanying peer-reviewed AIDS article on that
subject?
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: A deep dissatisfaction with the theory
that quickly grew around AIDS and the evolution of its treatment. As we pass the
20th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases, it has infected nearly 60
million people of which 22 million, including nearly half-a-million Americans
have died and 8,500 AIDS deaths occur daily. Yet, the prospects for a cure or
vaccine are as remote as they were over two decades
ago.
Booksandauthors.net: Your book suggests that the specific virus
called a retrovirus we have come to know as HIV does not cause AIDS. Isn't this
against mainstream thought?
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: Correct, but let us
not forget that originally a voluminous amount of self-fulfilling literature
also attributed AIDS to the retrovirus HTLV1. This proved
wrong.
Booksandauthors.net: When I think of dissident AIDS scientists,
Dr. Peter Duesberg comes to mind.
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: As a
prominent American retrovirologist who did much of the pioneer work on
retroviral ultrastructure and at one time worked with Robert Gallo, who was in a
better position to maintain that HIV did not cause
AIDS?
Booksandauthors.net: Yet the vast preponderance of current thought
supports Dr. Luc Montagnier's and Dr. Robert Gallo's HIV as causative in
AIDS.
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: Montagnier and Gallo were
retrovirologists. Both at one time tried to attribute retroviruses to causing
cancer. Such attempts failed miserably. When AIDS entered the picture retroviral
research quickly shifted from cancer to finding a retrovirus responsible for
AIDS.
Booksandauthors.net: Montagnier seemed fairly certain that HIV was
behind AIDS.
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: In 1990 Montagnier and Lemitre
found that cells cultured with "HIV", which normally died, grew well in the
presence of two antibiotics, minocycline and doxycycline. Antibiotics do not
affect viruses, so they were not working against HIV- it was a bacteria.
Montagnier decided that that bacteria was probably a mycoplasma, a necessary
"co-factor" for the AIDS virus to become fatal. This co-factor theory was in
effect Montagnier's way of admitting that HIV, the virus he had discovered
wasn't virulent enough in itself to even approach what happened in
AIDS.
Booksandauthors.net: But if HIV does not cause AIDS, then what
does?
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: The antibiotics Montagnier was using also
have activity against tuberculosis-like bacteria called mycobacteria.
Tuberculosis and fowl tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium) are not only the
recognized leading causes of infectious disease in AIDS today, they are by far
the most important infections in AIDS.
Booksandauthors.net: Dr.
Broxmeyer, in October 2002 you and your group appeared in the extremely
prestigious Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), regarding a novel phage-based
treatment to kill AIDS TB and avium. A summary of the article was subsequently
featured as an Editor's Choice in the October 22nd issue of TB & Outbreaks
Week. Was this related to a proposed AIDS vaccination or cure?
Lawrence
Broxmeyer, M.D.: Yes. That study used bacteriophages also called "phages" to
kill AIDS tuberculosis. Phages are viruses which live inside bacteria some of
which have the ability to kill them. In the JID study we presented the novel
idea of introducing phages which we knew would kill AIDS TB and fowl
tuberculosis (Mycobacteria avium) into a benign mycobacteria basically found in
the genital secretions of every man and women called Mycobacteria smegmatis.
Smegmatis, subsequently served as a veritable 'Trojan horse' to deliver phages
destructive to virulent AIDS mycobacteria. Our results proved that their killing
in the white blood cell was far in excess of what modern day antibiotics could
achieve.
Booksandauthors.net: What do you see coming of AIDS in the
future?
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: Continued destruction and havoc until
it is realized that AIDS is not caused by a 'retrovirus' and that different
principles must be applied to effect a cure. Even in the case of America's
potent and potentially dangerous anti-retroviral drugs, the last chapter has not
been written. Regush mentions that these drug cocktails "have anti-microbial
properties that could, to varying degrees, target other infections that are
common to AIDS". FDA approval for any of these agents did not require
information as to whether they were bactericidal.
Booksandauthors.net:
But isn't AIDS supposed to be sexually transmitted? How do you correlate this
with your findings that the mycobacteria such as TB and Fowl TB are behind
AIDS?
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: By 1972, five years before gays started
dying in the US, Rolland wrote Genital Tuberculosis, a Forgotten Disease? And
ironically, in 1979, on the eve of AIDS recognition, Gondzik and Jasiewicz
showed that even in the laboratory, genitally infected tubercular male guinea
pigs could infect healthy females thought their semen by an HIV-compatible ratio
of 1 in 6 or 17%, prompting him to warn patients that not only was tuberculosis
probably a sexually transmitted disease, but also the necessity of the
application of suitable contraceptives, such as condoms to avoid it. Gondzik's
solution and date of publication are chilling, his findings significant. The
medical literature is peppered with references not only of tuberculosis but
avian tuberculosis as potentially sexually transmitted
disease.
Booksandauthors.net: This too is not widely
appreciated.
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: Things move slowly in medicine. It
has been my repeated experience that any patient, including an AIDS patient
would much rather be told he has a 'virus' or 'retrovirus' then a form of
tuberculosis.
Booksandauthors.net: You have many fascinating insights and
we wish you continued success with your book and getting the word out
there.
Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.: That's exactly the point. Research
engines pointed in the wrong direction, no matter how extensive, have not and
will not get us where we need to go.
Downloading of the article [Is AIDS
really caused by a virus? Medical Hypotheses (2003) 60(5), 671–688 2003 Elsevier
Science Ltd].by Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, and his on-going research, can be found
at http://medamericaresearch.org.
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