The man behind the NY Super virus scare

Ho, meanwhile, was coming under heavy criticism."When I first heard this,
I said, Holy sh.t there is no evidence, says Dr. Robert
Gallo, an eminent virologist. "Clearly, conclusively, scientifically, it
was inappropriate to make that statement."

Gallo and other leading figures in the field including Dr. Tony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
believe the new case report, while unfortunate for the patient, is likely
a statistically predictable outlier.

Unfortunately, according to data generated by Ho's institute,
drug-resistant HIV is now commonplace: Nearly 30 percent of newly
diagnosed HIV cases are resistant to at least one AIDS drug, and 11
percent are resistant to drugs in two or more drug classes.

In much of the criticism, there was an undercurrent of resentment toward
Ho resulting from revelations about Ho's links to Frieden (who sits on
the
Aaron Diamond Board of Directors) and the San Francisco laboratory that
does the resistance testing, ViroLogic (as a scientific adviser, he
receives a stipend and stock options).