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Does Arafat Have AIDS?
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | November 4, 2004 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 11/04/2004 4:19:17 PM PST by MisterRepublican

With doctors claiming they have still not diagnosed Yasser Arafat despite a week of hospitalization and extensive testing, some commentators have been suggesting the PLO leader may be suffering from AIDS.

Arafat's condition suddenly deteriorated last night and he was placed in intensive care at the Paris military hospital where he was brought for treatment Friday, Palestinian officials said.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; arafat; hadnothas
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To: detsaoT

Wow.


61 posted on 11/04/2004 6:26:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: detsaoT
Nevermind about the link. I did a search on "Rahman al-Qudwa" and found several articles. Of course the sources will not satisfy my friend, but at least he can't accuse me of making it up. In order to convince him the New York Times would have to run the story on the front page. Here a couple of the links I found if anyone is interested:

1. Arafat threatens 'disastrous explosion'

2. WORLDNETDAILY REPORTS THAT ARAFAT IS: NOT AN ARAB; FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL; TOOL OF THE ILLUMINIST RUSSIAN KGB
62 posted on 11/04/2004 6:50:22 PM PST by Arnold Zephel
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To: MisterRepublican

This morning Mike Gallagher mentioned this thread on his national radio show. He was talking with mayor Weingarten (sic?) about how Arafat is scum and brought up FreeRepublic and this thread (or the other one which is identical).


63 posted on 11/05/2004 7:34:18 AM PST by Flightdeck (Gravity and EM are the same thing)
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To: MisterRepublican


64 posted on 11/07/2004 10:33:42 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Spok
According to Drudge, his wife's keeping him alive because only he knows where the billions skimmed from the PA are! LOL! Drudege won't touch this story.
65 posted on 11/07/2004 10:34:37 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: feedback doctor

Arafat night not die for awhile. He could be in a coma for several weeks.


66 posted on 11/07/2004 12:12:29 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: paudio; LadyDoc

"HIV doesn't cause a low platelet count"

What comic book did you get your medical degree from? In advanced HIV/AIDS thombocytopenia is extremely common, even in those not on anti-viral therapy. In fact, it's one of the tell-tale signs of AIDS.


67 posted on 11/09/2004 2:13:05 PM PST by dit_xi
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To: MisterRepublican

now let's see the world net daily, they're credible right? Doesn't sound at all like one of Karl Rove's whispering smear campaigns does it? Oh that's right I forgot, Arafat hasn't fathered a black child out of wedlock with a prostitute. Got to get my stories straight


68 posted on 11/09/2004 2:32:14 PM PST by winston61
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To: MisterRepublican

Yes...its AIDS...and he's already kicked the bucket. That means...another TERRORIST has bit the dust. ;o)


69 posted on 11/09/2004 2:34:02 PM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: dit_xi

Low platelets can be a sign of liver failure, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, metastatic cancer, chronic leukemia, drug reaction, enlarged spleen from parasites found in north Africa (schistosomiasis mansoni or malaria), alcoholism, etc. etc.

The rule in medicine is when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.

He is in his mid 70's. ITP is the most common cause of thrombocytopenia, followed by chronic leukemia...Mild thrombocytopenia is commmon in HIV, but severe is usually related to either the medications or in severe end stage cases. We have no history of Arafat being treated for HIV, nor of recurrant acute infections (e.g. PCP pneumonia, or chronic diarrhea), nor of dementia. The HIV claim seems to be a way of snidely saying he is gay, or he is an IV drug abuser. Is this a political slander, or based on fact? The fact that the original studies implied gall bladder disease, i.e. ascending cholangitis needing an ERCP so they called in specialists, suggests it is liver failure, not HIV.

His problem is not infection, but seems to be a cerebral bleed from his liver failure.


70 posted on 11/09/2004 6:30:56 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: MisterRepublican

No he is just dead.


71 posted on 11/09/2004 6:31:26 PM PST by Porterville (IT'S GOOD TO BE REPUBLICAN- ASK ME HOW)
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To: LadyDoc

He doesn't particularly look very jaundiced though for liver failure or cholangitis. I've considered ITP, TTP, pancreatic ca, and those you mentioned....but why the secrecy and the shroud of a "blood disorder"? Are our French medical colleagues so incompetent that they can't give any one of those diagnosis you mentioned? Doctor, to regard HIV as a "zebra" diagnosis is totally out of step and out of touch with today's landscape. HIV is rampant! Where have you been practicing, sister? Ask any of our Emergency Medicine colleague how many HIV patient they see on a regular basis, especially those working in the inner cities or any busy emergency department for that matter!

Differential diagnosis for thrombocytopenia:
I. Decreased production (marrow in adults)
A. Marrow infiltration with tumor, fibrosis
B. Marrow failure - aplastic and hypoplastic anemias
C. HIV
D. Chronic alcoholism

II. Splenic sequestration
A. Splenic hypertrophy - tumor, portal hypertension (anything that can cause liver failure that leads to splenomegaly such as cirrhosis secondary to alcohol, Hepatitis B, C, etc...)

III. Increased destruction
A. Nonimmune
1. Vascular prostheses, cardiac valves
2. DIC
3. Sepsis
4. Vasculitis
5. TTP
B. Immune
1. Autoantibodies (e.g., ITP)
2. Drug-associated antibodies
3. Circulatory immune complexes - SLE/lupus,
bacterial sepsis, viral agents, parasitic infx
4. HIV

IV. Lab error (my favorite nemesis)

That's all that I can remember from medical school and residency 15 yrs ago. Hey not too shabby, heh? I'm sure you can add more to the list.


72 posted on 11/10/2004 4:48:33 AM PST by dit_xi
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To: dit_xi

Code blue blog speculates that the French accidentally overdosed him, causing hypoxia and coma...

As HIV being rampant, you have to remember that I live in rural areas. The last place I saw HIV regularly was when I was a missionary in Africa...


73 posted on 11/10/2004 9:52:08 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc

Many speculated that he had liver failure or that he had an acute cholecystitis, cholangitis with sepsis after a botched ERCP, etc..As to the liver failure part, he didn't really have much stigmata of end stage liver disease...not particularly jaundiced, no ascites. We can only speculate because of the thrombocytopenia. As to the cerebral hemorrhage, could he have had ring enhancing lesions from toxoplasmosis or cryptococcus and the French made the wrong diagnosis? Who knows!

As to HIV being rampant in the US, it certainly is a huge problem in large cities. I've worked at Grady in Atlanta, and hospitals in New Orleans, and Chicago...and took care of too many HIV patients. I'm now settled in the Panhandle of Florida and just 2 months ago was consulted on a patient that came through the ER. He was an emaciated 24 y/o guy with shortness of breath, chest pain, hypotension and massive cardiomegally on CXR. Lab wise, he was pancytopenic. To make the story short, he had cardiac tamponade. As it was 3AM when I saw this guy, I performed an ultrasound guided pericardialcentesis and floated a triple lumen catheter/central line into the pericardial sac. Pulled out 850cc of pericardial fluid. Guess what, it was acid-fast positive! This dude had TB. He was eventually found to be HIV positive as well with high viral load. He eventually got a pericardial window and discharged 2 weeks later.


74 posted on 11/12/2004 8:42:02 AM PST by dit_xi
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To: dit_xi

I've worked on Indian reservatoins and seen lots of TB. And in Africa, it was a common diagnosis for FUO...now it is coming back, and those with HIV never get cured...it's a disaster in the works, but little publicity.

Imagine if we started forcing hospitalization for months like they did in the past for TB...yet that is what they have to do...guess we'll have to wait till a big epidemic in a jail occurs...


75 posted on 11/12/2004 4:25:53 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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