THE TRUTH BEHIND AIDS PT 15 ( NO WONDER ITS CALLED RED CROSS)

[Guest guest]

CONT'D FROM PART 14

In spite of attempts by hospitals to limit their liability for administering transfusions of HIV-tainted blood, the next few years will see a flood of lawsuits by unknowing recipients. All Kaiser hospitals in San Francisco have been warned of this, and Kaiser admitted privately a few years ago that it believed they had already transfused an estimated 30,000 patients with HIV-tainted blood. But the American Red Cross continues to sell HIV-tainted blood to blood banks across the country. Why the Red Cross? Doesn't the Red Cross do marvelous humanitarian work? Yes, it does, but in its management of blood banks, it has been criminally negligent. By allowing its computer management control of blood supplies to break down, the Red Cross was unable to properly monitor blood collected from donors. Passwords for computer entry were stolen and used to falsify computer records to cover up that blood allegedly tested had not been tested. The result was

that thousands of people received HIVcontaminated blood. This showed up very quickly in

hemophiliacs; over 2000 of them became infected by Red Cross blood. The Red Cross was forced to appoint an internal panel to sort out the

mess it had made. The Red Cross still hasn't instituted a uniform system of screening dangerous would-be donors, such as persons suffering from AIDS, Hepatitis or TB—even drug users who inject their poison. Dr. Mendleson, a noted author, stated on a radio talk show that eighty percent of doctors surveyed would not accept Red Cross blood for use on themselves or their families. Even as mainstream a magazine as Money, as recently as its May 1994 issue, carried a major expose,

"America's Dangerous Blood Supply," detailing how AIDS carriers are still being allowed to donate blood. "After 10 years of testing donor blood for HIV," Money wrote in its ads for that issue, "Americans are still contracting the disease through transfusions. Remarkable as that may sound, what's even more startling is that these tragedies occur due to human error, flawed testing and legal loopholes. Not to mention the fact that the FDA, heavily influenced by the American Red Cross and other blood bank leaders, resisted adopting a more accurate blood test because it cost an additional $3. Why do concerns for cost outweigh those for human life?"The answer is this: Blood is big business. American Red Cross blood revenues are approaching $100 million a year—much of

it clear profit. The International Red Cross is a major trader in blood, receiving more than $4 billion a year in revenues around the world.

The problem may be even worse overseas. Poor countries without adequate facilities of their own are large markets for imported blood. One intelligence report monitoring infected blood supplied to targeted

countries (India in this case) indicated that one million Indians have AIDS—twice as many as reported by the World Health Organization. Contaminated blood supplied to India contained HIV-1, HIV-II and

HTLV-1 and HTLV-II. Hospitals are the most vulnerable to a blood-borne virus. The one institution designed as a safe place to cure us of our ills is now on the front lines of spreading the infection. The number of hospital care workers with reported cases of AIDS rose from 1.7 percent in 1983 to 5.7 percent in 1987. And while assuring hospital care workers that they were not in a high risk category, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that they handle all patients as if they were

infected with AIDS. Have you visited a hospital recently and noticed the small, inconspicuous signs in bathrooms and hallways—under the headline "Universal Precautions"—reminding the staff to regard every patient as a potential carrier of blood-borne pathogens? They're sort of like the notices in Camus' The Plague: "One had the feeling that many concessions had been made to a desire not to alarm the public."

The small notices are a subtle way of reminding doctors and nurses and staff that everyone they encounter is a deadly threat. Even the tiniest mistake—say, an accidental prick of their skin from a used syringe—can now cost them their lives. Doctors and health care workers are instructed to wear masks, gloves and gowns—and not to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, using resuscitation bags instead. All wards must have such bags on hand. "There is a growing sense of anxiety among American surgeons concerning the AIDS epidemic," says one intelligence agent, "and the high risk that all operating room personnel now face because of the heavy incidence of AIDS." AIDS is being spread in operating rooms through the use of high-speed power tools used as surgical instruments. Tests have now determined that the AIDS virus can live on dry surfaces

outside the body for seven days and wet surfaces for fourteen days.

The Pasteur Institute has confirmed findings of live AIDS viruses on wet and dry surfaces outside the body, a stunning piece of news that the media managed to ignore. Stated the report: "Infectious virus was

still detected after fifteen days at room temperature. Infectious virus could be recovered from dried material after up to three days at room temperature and in an aqueous environment survived longer than

fifteen days."Stanford University conducted tests for the U.S. Biological Warfare Department of the Department of Defense which showed that AIDS-contaminated blood deposited onto a surgeon's rotating drill

contaminated the air with a fine aerosol mist, containing live HIV particles of microscopic size which were deposited in a fine layer—like cigarette smoke—on walls, operating tables and other surfaces. When

human skin was exposed to the mist, it was susceptible to HIV infection.

Bostam

[Guest guest]

CONT'D FROM PART 14

In spite of attempts by hospitals to limit their liability for administering transfusions of HIV-tainted blood, the next few years will see a flood of lawsuits by unknowing recipients. All Kaiser hospitals in San Francisco have been warned of this, and Kaiser admitted privately a few years ago that it believed they had already transfused an estimated 30,000 patients with HIV-tainted blood. But the American Red Cross continues to sell HIV-tainted blood to blood banks across the country. Why the Red Cross? Doesn't the Red Cross do marvelous humanitarian work? Yes, it does, but in its management of blood banks, it has been criminally negligent. By allowing its computer management control of blood supplies to break down, the Red Cross was unable to properly monitor blood collected from donors. Passwords for computer entry were stolen and used to falsify computer records to cover up that blood allegedly tested had not been tested. The result was

that thousands of people received HIVcontaminated blood. This showed up very quickly in

hemophiliacs; over 2000 of them became infected by Red Cross blood. The Red Cross was forced to appoint an internal panel to sort out the

mess it had made. The Red Cross still hasn't instituted a uniform system of screening dangerous would-be donors, such as persons suffering from AIDS, Hepatitis or TB—even drug users who inject their poison. Dr. Mendleson, a noted author, stated on a radio talk show that eighty percent of doctors surveyed would not accept Red Cross blood for use on themselves or their families. Even as mainstream a magazine as Money, as recently as its May 1994 issue, carried a major expose,

"America's Dangerous Blood Supply," detailing how AIDS carriers are still being allowed to donate blood. "After 10 years of testing donor blood for HIV," Money wrote in its ads for that issue, "Americans are still contracting the disease through transfusions. Remarkable as that may sound, what's even more startling is that these tragedies occur due to human error, flawed testing and legal loopholes. Not to mention the fact that the FDA, heavily influenced by the American Red Cross and other blood bank leaders, resisted adopting a more accurate blood test because it cost an additional $3. Why do concerns for cost outweigh those for human life?"The answer is this: Blood is big business. American Red Cross blood revenues are approaching $100 million a year—much of

it clear profit. The International Red Cross is a major trader in blood, receiving more than $4 billion a year in revenues around the world.

The problem may be even worse overseas. Poor countries without adequate facilities of their own are large markets for imported blood. One intelligence report monitoring infected blood supplied to targeted

countries (India in this case) indicated that one million Indians have AIDS—twice as many as reported by the World Health Organization. Contaminated blood supplied to India contained HIV-1, HIV-II and

HTLV-1 and HTLV-II. Hospitals are the most vulnerable to a blood-borne virus. The one institution designed as a safe place to cure us of our ills is now on the front lines of spreading the infection. The number of hospital care workers with reported cases of AIDS rose from 1.7 percent in 1983 to 5.7 percent in 1987. And while assuring hospital care workers that they were not in a high risk category, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that they handle all patients as if they were

infected with AIDS. Have you visited a hospital recently and noticed the small, inconspicuous signs in bathrooms and hallways—under the headline "Universal Precautions"—reminding the staff to regard every patient as a potential carrier of blood-borne pathogens? They're sort of like the notices in Camus' The Plague: "One had the feeling that many concessions had been made to a desire not to alarm the public."

The small notices are a subtle way of reminding doctors and nurses and staff that everyone they encounter is a deadly threat. Even the tiniest mistake—say, an accidental prick of their skin from a used syringe—can now cost them their lives. Doctors and health care workers are instructed to wear masks, gloves and gowns—and not to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, using resuscitation bags instead. All wards must have such bags on hand. "There is a growing sense of anxiety among American surgeons concerning the AIDS epidemic," says one intelligence agent, "and the high risk that all operating room personnel now face because of the heavy incidence of AIDS." AIDS is being spread in operating rooms through the use of high-speed power tools used as surgical instruments. Tests have now determined that the AIDS virus can live on dry surfaces

outside the body for seven days and wet surfaces for fourteen days.

The Pasteur Institute has confirmed findings of live AIDS viruses on wet and dry surfaces outside the body, a stunning piece of news that the media managed to ignore. Stated the report: "Infectious virus was

still detected after fifteen days at room temperature. Infectious virus could be recovered from dried material after up to three days at room temperature and in an aqueous environment survived longer than

fifteen days."Stanford University conducted tests for the U.S. Biological Warfare Department of the Department of Defense which showed that AIDS-contaminated blood deposited onto a surgeon's rotating drill

contaminated the air with a fine aerosol mist, containing live HIV particles of microscopic size which were deposited in a fine layer—like cigarette smoke—on walls, operating tables and other surfaces. When

human skin was exposed to the mist, it was susceptible to HIV infection.

Bostam