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Non-Infectious Transmission
Are there non-infectious explanations for the supposed transmission of HIV/AIDS? If two people share a non-infectious risk factor, is the acquisition of HIV antibodies by them proof of transmission, or just an illusion of transmission?
“Here we demonstrate a simple way to produce, without use of any external virus, a mouse disease that displays several main characteristics of retroviral HIV infection…Both diseases are sexually and vertically transmissible , and transferable by cell-free plasma [which was not shown to contain viral particles]”
Ter-Grigorov VS et al. A new transmissible AIDS-like disease in mice induced by alloimmune stimuli. Nat Med. 1997 Jan;3(1):37-41.
“This syndrome [AIDS] occurs in a minority of infected persons, who generally have in common a past of antigenic stimulation [exposure to foreign substances] and of immune depression before LAV [later called HIV] infection.”
Montagnier L. Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus: From Molecular Biology to Pathogenicity. Ann Intern Med. 1985 Nov;103(5):689-93.
Courtesy Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society, December 22, 2008.