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SA: President Mbeki: 'Aids
scientists are latter-day Nazi-concentration camp doctors...'
Date Posted: Tuesday
06-Nov-2007
Two-million people have already died of AIDS in South Africa --
yet SA President Thabo Mbeki still told biographer Mark Gevisser this
past year that he is a "profound sceptic".
(Note: 2
million may not be a true figure as many deaths have been put down to other
illnesses in the past.)
Gevisser describes the matter in his book "Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred."
The president made certain that Gevisser got insight into a 100-page paper
secretly authored by Mbeki and distributed anonymously among the ANC
leadership six years ago.
This compared Aids scientists to latter-day Nazi concentration camp
doctors.
In it, Mbeki also portrayed black people who accepted orthodox Aids science
as "self-repressed" victims of a slave mentality. It also
describes the "HIV/Aids thesis" as entrenched in "centuries-old white racist
beliefs and concepts about Africans".
"There is no question as to the message Thabo Mbeki was delivering to me
along with this document: he was now, as he had been since 1999, an Aids
dissident," the author writes.
The president told him ..."The presentation of the matter, which is actually
quite wrong, is that the major killer disease on the African continent is
HIV/Aids, this is really going to decimate the African population! So your
biggest threat is not unemployment or racism or globalisation, your biggest
threat which will really destroy South Africa is this one!"
Yet, as the book points out, the government's own statistics show the effect
of Aids in South Africa has been "catastrophic" with more than 2-million
people already dead and one in eight of the working-age population now
infected with HIV.
Mbeki blocked the distribution of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in public
hospitals for years because he believed pharmaceutical companies were
overstating the link between HIV and Aids to sell drugs, and underplaying
the toxic side effects of ARVs.
"When I asked him in 2007 how he felt about having to withdraw from the Aids
debate, he told me it was 'very unfortunate' that his initiative had been
'drowned'" writes Gevisser.
Source URL:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0%2C%2C2205896%2C00.html
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SA - World Soccer Cup 2010 could cause an XDR-TB
epidemic world-wide
Date Posted: Tuesday
01-Jan-2008 from African Crisis web-site.
During the World Soccer Cup 2010 being held in
South Africa, at least 350,000 air-travellers are going to descend on South
Africa. They will be accommodated in the country's hospitality industry
-- however an industry which has a seriously-flawed health-control system.
The story posted just below my commentary shows how difficult it is even in
the best health care systems in the world, to stop XDR-TB-infected people
from infecting hundreds of others on any airplane flight.
South Africa has at least 4-million people now co-infected with TB+ AIDS
(Stats: Medisines Sans Frontierers). These people are using a huge variety
of antibiotic and antiretroviral drugs to keep fighting the destruction of
their immune system. They thus become so resistant to these drugs that
they usually die of Extremely-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. The official
number of XDR-TB deaths in South Africa stands at 400 - but that statistic
dates back to October 2006, when news reporters actually bothered to pick up
on the fact that a huge number of people were dying very quickly in one
specific TB-hospital.
These facts had been known to the SA health authorities since at least 2002
and it's an indication of the high level of censorship in South Africa
that they have managed to keep this deadly epidemic silent for four full
years! Only once TB-experts inside SA started ringing the international
alarm bells, did the international news media finally pick up on the story.
Hospitality employees NOT ALLOWED to be tested for
TB under SA law:
What none of these stories have ever mentioned however is that under South
African so-called 'privacy-rights' laws, job-applicants are NOT allowed to
undergo any testing for any kind of infectious diseases such as TB - even in
the hospitality sector. So anyone in the hospitality industry, where
such employees come into frequent contact with members of the public, none
of the SA employers are allowed to even know if their employees preparing
and serving food for restaurant patrons are infected or not.
In most Western countries, it is actually illegal for
hospitality-industry employers to have any employees with infectious
diseases serving any members of the public.
The owners of hospitality-sites caught doing this, face closure of their
establishments and severe fines, sometimes even criminal charges if any of
their patrons' health suffered because of it.
And in these countries, health inspectorates are in place to check the
cleanliness and health of restaurants, which usually include routine health
checks on the employees including TB-tests and X-rays. These health
checks often are a legal requirement which hospitality-industry employees
have to undergo each year in the interest of the greater public good - i.e.
to stop epidemics from spreading.
Please read the following story thoroughly - keeping in mind those hundreds
of thousands of foreign travellers who will be descending on South Africa
during the WC2010 and making use of the SA hospitality industry.
"TB-infected Nepalese woman boards American Airlines flight, prompting
health scare:
"Health officials are searching for dozens of international passengers who
may have flown from India and in the United States with a (Nepalese) woman
infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis.
The 30-year-old woman, who authorities declined to identify is under
treatment in a San Francisco Bay Area hospital.
She arrived in San Francisco December 13 aboard an American Airlines flight
that she boarded in New Delhi, India.
Only about a week after the flight landed, the woman showed up at the
Stanford Hospital emergency room with advanced symptoms of the disease.
Hospital spokesman Gary Migdol said that the woman is being treated in
isolation and is in a stable condition.
Fenstersheib said the woman will remain hospitalised until she tests
negative for the disease: she has 'a strain of the disease that resists the
most common antibiotics, (i.e. Multiple or Extremely-Drug-resistant-TB)"
CDC: TESTING 44 PEOPLE IN 17 STATES FOR
TB-INFECTION - RESULTS TAKE 8 WEEKS:
The flight stopped in Chicago before continuing to San Francisco
International.
Health officials said she was already diagnosed with TB in India and knew it
-- but boarded the flight anyway.
US officials have little authority over who boards incoming international
flights - however such passengers are typically barred from boarding flights
originating in the United States.
"She did have symptoms on the flight," said Santa Clara County Health
Director Dr Marty Fenstersheib. "She was coughing."
Officials with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are asking
health authorities in 17 states to contact 44 people who sat within two rows
of the woman and urge them get checked for tuberculosis. The risk of
infection is far lower than passing on influenza or the common cold, doctors
said.
"TB requires pretty constant contact with someone. About 1 to 2% of all
tuberculosis cases are of the multi-drug resistant variety.," he said.
This doctor is either downright stupid about TB, or is lying outright: TB
baccillii are passed along in aerosol droplets, i.e. through the air shared
by surrounding passengers.
The CDC and World Health Organisations have drawn up new guidelines and also
published the results of studies how TB is spread onboard air flights.
Read their following reports:
SEE PAGE 31, showing the seating proximity which together with the
air-quality and length of time passengers are exposed to such TB-bacillii
from fellow-travellers.
On older planes, where the same air is re-circulated repeatedly, exposure
risks are greater. Even in modern planes with modern filtering systems, the
air is re-circulated 50% of the time.
Even HEP-filters do not filter out all the harmful bacteria, it has been
found:
Report 2006 "Tuberculosis and Air Travel", World Health Organisation:
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2006/who_h...
CDC report: "Exposure of Passengers and Flight Crew to Mycobacterium
tuberculosis on Commercial Aircraft, 1992-1995. guidelines for prevention
and control."
http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/0003...
CDC spokeswoman Shelly Diaz said it will take more than eight weeks to
receive definitive results.
Source URL:
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2245223,00.html
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