But the tragedy doesn't stop there. With all their "success" with AZT, the HIV/AIDS establishment decided in 1990 to start giving AZT to people who tested positive for the HIV antibody, but had no signs of illness.(87) You read that correctly....in 1990, we started giving a highly toxic drug that destroys the immune system to healthy people because they had the antibodies to the virus called HIV. Repeat: not an active HIV virus running wild in their body, but the antibodies to the virus called HIV. It was called "AIDS Prevention!"

And what happened to these people? The same thing that happens to AIDS patients: hair loss, muscle degeneration, anemia, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, impotence, leukopenia, hepatitis, Pneumocystis pneumonia, dementia, and lymphoma. In short, these people develop AIDS!(88)

And rightfully so. AZT kills the body's T-cells. It destroys the immune system. It ruins any chance the body has of fighting off opportunistic diseases. AZT causes AIDS!

Even Burroughs Wellcome agrees. They state in the Physicians' Desk Reference (the drug encyclopedia for doctors): "It was often difficult to distinguish adverse events possibly associated with AZT administration from the underlying signs of HIV disease [AIDS]."(89)

What we've done is to take a large number of people -- friends of ours -- who were perfectly healthy, give them AIDS by giving them AZT, and watch them die.

Only the bravest, the most contrary, the ones who can stand up to the pressure from their doctor and so-called friends -- the ones who have refused to take AZT when told they were HIV Positive -- have survived.

How many have we killed with AZT? It's very difficult to say. The CDC has recorded 220,000 deaths from AIDS (listed as Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection) from 1987 to 1994, with some 40,000 in 1994 itself.(90) If we count on at least another 40,000 again in 1995 and 1996, we're over 300,000 total AIDS deaths since 1987.

Burroughs Wellcome says its total income from the sale of AZT since 1987 is 2.5 Billion dollars -- about $400 million this year alone.(91) The average wholesale cost for one year for one patient is $2,000 ($10,000-12,000 retail).(92) That works out to 1.25 million patient-years of AZT prescription since 1987.

The average patient only takes AZT for about one year -- which is explained by the fact that within one to two years, the average AZT recipient either dies from the toxicity of the drug or their opportunistic disease(s), or stops taking AZT after only a few months because of the unbearable side effects.(93)

This works out to a guess that somewhere around a million people worldwide have taken AZT. Since the United States and Europe are the only places of AIDS concentrations that can afford the drug, and since the U.S. has about twice as many HIV Positives as Europe,(94) the bottom line is....

Probably around 600,000 people in the U.S. have taken AZT since 1987, many of whom had no symptoms of AIDS when they started.

Half of them have died.

The rest have suffered -- are suffering --needlessly.

Not a very good track record for a drug.

In fact, the rise in the number of deaths from AIDS since 1987 directly corresponds to the rise in the use of AZT.(95) And the pressure to take AZT or other DNA-inhibitor/protease-inhibitor cocktails if you are diagnosed with AIDS or found to be HIV Positive (even without symptoms) is virtually overwhelming.(96)

So of the 300,000 deaths attributed to AIDS by the CDC since 1987, the vast majority probably died from taking AZT -- from the extreme toxicity of the drug itself, or from an opportunistic disease that resulted from the destruction of the immune system by AZT, or from developing AIDS by taking AZT,...

...especially since the recovery rate of HIV Positives and AIDS patients is so high when they stop taking AZT and other recreational drugs.(97)