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This court case could never happen, for many reasons. The biggest one is that the statute of limitations for wrongful death has run (is over) for those who died from taking AZT between 1987 and 1997.
Those who are dying today from AIDS are, of course, not dying from HIV. Nor are they dying from full-strength AZT, which was discontinued in the mid-1990’s. The question remains whether the remaining 600mg/day dosage of AZT in the standard prescription of Combivir® or Trizivir® is enough to destroy a person’s immune system so that they still die from an iatrogenic opportunistic disease, but I am not aware of any specific research on that. It may be that GlaxoSmithKline was forced to lower the dosage of AZT enough to virtually eliminate its normally lethal results.
However, even the AIDS “experts” admit that more people are still dying today from the side effects of the new HAART (Highly Active AntiRetroviral Treatment), especially from liver failure, than from illnesses associated with AIDS, and that the drugs being given today are even worse than the ones offered ten years ago.
I do know that the use of poppers continues to this day in the homosexual community, causing the continuation of Classic AIDS.
In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to widen the definition of AIDS to include diseases that are not opportunistic or linked to immune deficiency. The complete list of AIDS diseases in the U.S. is now:
~ Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)
~ Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS)
~ HIV wasting syndrome
~ Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
~ Cryptococcosis, extrapulmonary
~ HIV encephalopathy (AIDS Dementia)
~ Mycobacterium Avium Intracellulare (MAC or MAI)
~ Candidiasis of the esophagus, trachea, bronchi, or lungs
~ Cryptosporidiosis, chronic intestinal
~ Cytomegalovirus disease (CMV)
~ Tuberculosis (outside of the lungs)
~ Herpes simplex virus infection
~ Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML)
~ Primary lymphoma of the brain
~ Toxoplasmosis of the brain
~ Histoplasmosis
~ Isoporiasis, chronic intestinal
~ Coccidioidomycosis
~ Salmonella septicemia
~ Bacterial infections, recurrent,
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