CDC, AMA & FDA Give BJ to Big Pharma

CDC Backs HIV Test for All Between 13-64 to prevent spread.

ATLANTA Sep 21, 2006 (AP)— All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say. (Say? fire that proofreader.)

"I think it's an incredible advance. I think it's courageous on the part of the CDC," said A. David Paltiel, a health policy expert at the Yale University School of Medicine.

CDC lists the new and improved rapid HIV tests. Bernard Branson, Associate Director for CDC Diagnostics and HIV/AIDS Prevention. "New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic."

Hmmm. Sounds like the same old strategies of "we're here to help you with a phony epidemic" ; please approve expenditures in the billions to the pharmaceutical companies. CDC, guardians of disease control, promote the sale of rapid diagnostic HIV tests, tests which the FDA has been approving "rapidly" the last couple of years.

(I read last week the CDC, with St. Jude's, has developed a bird flu vaccine. Hopefully, the money makers will be content with money made from the research and not need a real epidemic.)

And while we're giving away money, and Big Daddy Federal will give away money, lets not forget Africa needs testing. Close to 98 percent of the deaths in Africa attributed to AIDS is done so without an autopsy or lab work - simply the Anglo do-gooders and local folks listing cause of death as AIDS because it keeps the money coming. Of the 38 million worldwide with HIV/AIDS 34 million live in Africa and Asia. You think poverty, lack of food and access to water have anything to do with wasting away and dying?

Deadly virus, or the most successful corporate snake oil scam in history.