If the blood of one partner contains HIV, the virus can pass into the bloodstream of the other partner. "Our study has shown that microlesions are normally present in the oral mucosae and that saliva contains blood. Therefore, we feel that passionate kissing cannot be considered 'protective sex' for the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus infection. We found that blood is present in the saliva of fifty percent of subjects examined, its level increasing significantly after brushing of teeth or passionate kissing." Two teenagers necking are at risk. In a meeting in Montreal in 1989, several virologists and doctors confirmed that kissing will transmit AIDS. But government doctors and scientists who wanted to attend were told they would face "disciplinary action." So the meeting was boycotted by many who most needed to be present. But if kissing can pass the infection, how much value do condoms really have? Not much, if any.

"Safe sex" is a myth, knowingly created by our leaders to avoid public panic or wrath. "Safe sex" is advertised as a panacea for AIDS. Big name stars are used to promote this deadly fraud. But condoms are not a solution for AIDS; they merely spread permissiveness and put even more people in jeopardy, believing they are "safe" if they use them. Dr. William O'connor, a noted AIDS researcher, has stated flatly: "Nearly every fluid in the human body is capable of transmitting the virus, including blood, saliva, tears and sweat. People have become infected by simply touching the blood of virus carriers or having microscopic quantities of infected blood strike their faces. Viruses have been cultured from the air of operating rooms. All that is required (to become infected) is that a single virus particle has to come in contact with a susceptible human cell." One drop of infected blood is all it takes. Even now, in 1994, our blood supply is significantly more dangerous than Americans realize. The average American is under the impression that AIDScontaminated blood was a problem a few years ago, but that it has been corrected and the supply is now completely safe. It is potentially a fatal mistake to believe that. Transfusion, in fact, still carries more risk of AIDS infection than the authorities want you to know. Already, tens of thousands of Americans have contracted AIDS through blood transfusions and that  (33 of ) number grows daily. Take the terrible plight of American hemophiliacs.

As long ago as March 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association admitted that as many as sixty to eighty percent of America's hemophiliacs had been infected with AIDS through contaminated blood transfusions. In spite of attempts by hospitals to limit their liability for administering transfusions of HIV-tainted blood, the next few years will see a flood of lawsuits by unknowing recipients. All Kaiser hospitals in San Francisco have been warned of this, and Kaiser admitted privately a few years ago that it believed they had already transfused an estimated 30,000 patients with HIV-tainted blood. But the American Red Cross continues to sell HIV-tainted blood to blood banks across the country. Why the Red Cross? Doesn't the Red Cross do marvelous humanitarian work? Yes, it does, but in its management of blood banks, it has been criminally negligent.

By allowing its computer management control of blood supplies to break down, the Red Cross was unable to properly monitor blood collected from donors. Passwords for computer entry were stolen and used to falsify computer records to cover up that blood allegedly tested had not been tested. The result was that thousands of people received HIVcontaminated blood. This showed up very quickly in hemophiliacs; over 2000 of them became infected by Red Cross blood. The Red Cross was forced to appoint an internal panel to sort out the mess it had made. The Red Cross still hasn't instituted a uniform system of screening dangerous would-be donors, such as persons suffering from AIDS, Hepatitis or TB even drug users who inject their poison. Dr. Robert Mendleson, a noted author, stated on a radio talk show that eighty percent of doctors surveyed would not accept Red Cross blood for use on themselves or their families.

major expose, "America's Dangerous Blood Supply," detailing how AIDS carriers are still being allowed to donate blood. "After 10 years of testing donor blood for HIV," Money wrote in its ads for that issue, "Americans are still contracting the disease through transfusions. Remarkable as that may sound, what's even more startling is that these tragedies occur due to human error, flawed testing and legal loopholes. Not to mention the fact that the FDA, heavily influenced by the American Red Cross and other blood bank leaders, resisted adopting a more accurate blood test because it cost an additional $3. Why do concerns for cost outweigh those for human life?" The answer is this: Blood is big business.

American Red Cross blood revenues are approaching $100 million a year much of it clear profit. The International Red Cross is a major trader in blood, receiving more than $4 billion a year in revenues around the world. The problem may be even worse overseas. Poor countries without adequate facilities of their own are large markets for imported blood. One intelligence report monitoring infected blood supplied to targeted countries (India in this case) indicated that one million Indians have AIDS twice as many as reported by the World Health Organization. Contaminated blood supplied to India contained HIV-1, HIV-II and HTLV-1 and HTLV-II.  (34 of ) Hospitals are the most vulnerable to a blood-borne virus. The one institution designed as a safe place to cure us of our ills is now on the front lines of spreading the infection. The number of hospital care workers with reported cases of AIDS rose from 1.7 percent in 1983 to 5.7 percent in 1987.

And while assuring hospital care workers that they were not in a high risk category, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that they handle all patients as if they were infected with AIDS. Have you visited a hospital recently and noticed the small, inconspicuous signs in bathrooms and hallways under the headline "Universal Precautions" reminding the staff to regard every patient as a potential carrier of blood-borne pathogens? They're sort of like the notices in Camus' The Plague: "One had the feeling that many concessions had been made to a desire not to alarm the public." The small notices are a subtle way of reminding doctors and nurses and staff that everyone they encounter is a deadly threat. Even the tiniest mistake say, an accidental prick of their skin from a used syringe can now cost them their lives. Doctors and health care workers are instructed to wear masks, gloves and gowns and not to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, using resuscitation bags instead. All wards must have such bags on hand.

"There is a growing sense of anxiety among American surgeons concerning the AIDS epidemic," says one intelligence agent, "and the high risk that all operating room personnel now face because of the heavy incidence of AIDS." AIDS is being spread in operating rooms through the use of high-speed power tools used as surgical instruments. Tests have now determined that the AIDS virus can live on dry surfaces outside the body for seven days and wet surfaces for fourteen days. The Pasteur Institute has confirmed findings of live AIDS viruses on wet and dry surfaces outside the body, a stunning piece of news that the media managed to ignore.

Stated the report: "Infectious virus was still detected after fifteen days at room temperature. Infectious virus could be recovered from dried material after up to three days at room temperature and in an aqueous environment survived longer than fifteen days." Stanford University conducted tests for the U.S. Biological Warfare Department of the Department of Defense which showed that AIDS-contaminated blood deposited onto a surgeon's rotating drill contaminated the air with a fine aerosol mist, containing live HIV particles of microscopic size which were deposited in a fine layer like cigarette smoke on walls, operating tables and other surfaces.

When human skin was exposed to the mist, it was susceptible to HIV infection. Anyone not wearing a mask who entered the room between surgeries could inhale as much as five micrograms of these aerosolized blood particles and run a higher than normal risk of contracting AIDS. Unless all surfaces are perfectly swabbed down, even an empty operating room is a dangerous place. What if, in the normal high-speed rush, proper cleansing procedures are not carried out between patients? The study suggests that an infected glove carelessly left on a surface for a few minutes before disposal could deposit the HIV virus on that surface and place at risk anyone who touched it bare handed in the next few days.  (35 of ) But emergency rooms are the most dangerous of all.

Says one intelligent agent: "At hospitals like John Hopkins University Hospital, almost fourteen percent of those who come to the emergency room with penetrating wounds test positive for AIDS. The bloodiest wounded pose the most serious threat." A recent study showed that forty percent of all males admitted to emergency rooms in the Miami area were HIV positive. Even a visit to the doctor's or dentist's office carries a hazard. The Centers for Disease Control does not like to report how many licensed medical personnel are AIDS carriers. But according to the Medical World News, as of 1992 there were more than 5,000 dentists, doctors and health care workers infected with the virus. One intelligence agent who monitors the situation places the number at closer to 8,000. In a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet by a team of microbiologists from the University of Georgia led by Dr. David Lewis, the possible transmission of the HIV virus through dental equipment was opened up for scrutiny. The scientists used DNA techniques to identify evidence of the human immunodeficiency virus in two types of commonly used dental tools: the drill and the prophylaxis angle, which dentists use to clean and polish teeth. The research team tested twelve high-speed drills and forty prophylaxis, and in all cases, they found material containing the HIV virus trapped in the equipment.

Dr. Lewis and his team found that HIV escapes the typical chemical disinfectant. "It is usually applied on the outside, which is not enough" said the Lancet report. The substances "were blown out" when the tools were reused, even though they were disinfected with chemical germicides, which suggested a risk of depositing the HIV material in the next patient's mouth. (Similar tests with Hepatitis B were conducted with the same results.) "It truly poses a risk just like a contaminated needle does to a healthcare worker," said Dr. Lewis. The case of Kimberly Bergalis, a beautiful, 23-year-old who contracted AIDS after a visit to an infected dentist was well publicized by the national news media.

Her father, George Bergalis, called Dr. Acer (who died on September 3, 1990) a murderer. "Someone who has AIDS and continues to practice is nothing better than a murderer, that is all they are," he told reporters. "They might as well take a gun and shoot somebody in the head with it." Kimberly called medical doctors and Acer's colleagues "wimps and bastards," because even when Acer was in the last and most virulent stages of the HIV infection, they allowed him to work, never reporting his condition to the health authorities. Acer was indeed a bastard. He only discussed his condition with the Centers for Disease Control on one occasion, and then, only for an hour. He also destroyed his records. Those who knew him believe he may have been suffering from AIDS-related dementia and intentionally infected Kimberley Bergalis and perhaps others.