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Another example of the importance of naming occurred around 1994, when it was widely agreed that Kaposi's Sarcoma was not caused by HIV, but by another virus called Human Herpes Virus 8. [Chang, 1994] This is very interesting, because this skin cancer was one of only two diseases that started the whole AIDS thing in the first place, and now it turns out that it was not caused by HIV, even though KS is still an AIDS-defining condition, and HIV supposedly still causes AIDS. The name HHV8 simply was not adequate, so the new name KSHV - Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpes Virus was invented. Now, everybody would know that the causal link between the virus and the disease was a `fact' just by speaking its name. Presumably, not many people are going to read the literature and wonder why about one-half of some age groups of schoolchildren in Egypt, where the disease is quite rare, have antibodies to KSHV? [Andreoni, 1999]
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103 posted on 05/04/2005 4:55:47 PM MDT by David Lane
Almost all if not all Kaposi’s sarcoma occur in the ”female” homosexual partner.
It is directly related to the inhalation of Amyl Nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle!
Read Inventing the Aids Virus: ISBN 0-89526-470-6
B’Shem Y’shua
chuck
Very good point Chuck.
Thanks for the information.
Best wishes,
David Lane