AFRICAN AIDS NUMBERS GROSSLY EXAGGERATED

WASHINGTON, May 4 (LSN.ca) - In a watershed report, WorldNetDaily reveals
that AIDS in Africa is defined differently than in America and that when
the American definitions are used Africa's reported AIDS 'epidemic'
disappears. HIV tests which are essential to the AIDS diagnosis in are not
given in except to tiny samples of the population.

Rather in place place the "Bangui Definition" created at a World Health
Organization meeting in October, 1985 is used to define AIDS.

According to this definition, AIDS is considered present when a person is
diagnosed with two of the following three symptoms combined with any one
of several minor symptoms: "prolonged fevers for a month or more, weight
loss over 10 percent, prolonged diarrhea."

The minor symptoms include chronically swollen lymph nodes, persistent
cough for more than a month, persistent herpes, and itching skin
inflammation.

Most people with a knowledge of Africa are aware that such symptoms can be
the result of a host of causes other than AIDS in that war-torn and
disease-ridden continent. Rather than the tens of millions of AIDS cases
in each African country as is reported in the media, strict accounting for
AIDS by the American definition reports a cumulative total of 794,444
cases from 1982 to November 1999 (WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, Nov
26, 1999). African countries, the report notes, cooperate in the charade
since "AIDS" acts like a magic word opening the donor coffers of the
West.
The report also shows that the quest to show AIDS cases among
heterosexuals is the result of zealous bias. Most reports fail to mention
that according to the World Bank, under normal, healthy conditions, the
chances of an infected man transmitting the virus to an unprotected woman
are less then 2 in 1,000. Moreover, the August 15, 1997, "American Journal
of Epidemiology" reported that male-to-female transmission of HIV is
extremely difficult, requiring on average of one thousand unprotected
sexual (non-anal) contacts, and female-to- male requires ann average of
8,000 contacts.
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