Fauci’s deadly solution to a harmless virus … in 1987

Eliyahu Tulshinski

May 24, 2022

Frontline News recently reported on the tragic case of a Florida mother with flu symptoms who was given the dangerous, experimental drug remdesivir, after which she suffered kidney damage and oxygen deficiency, winding up on a ventilator and dying. All based on an inconclusive COVID test.

Unfortunately, she is far from the only to have suffered the deadly side effects of this antiviral drug being used under an emergency use authorization. Nor is the COVID test the only test that can lead to such dangerous drug prescriptions.

No cure for the common cold

Pleconaril, once touted as a destroyer of the common cold Rhinovirus, failed to win FDA approval due to its side effects back in 2002. Twenty years later, there’s still no cure.

Viruses vs. bacteria

Professor Peter Duesberg, author of Inventing the AIDS Virus, explains the natural jealousy of virologists for the success of bacteriologists, whose antibiotics efficiently kill bacteria with minimal side effects.

The virus hunters have always aspired to the glories of their predecessors, the bacteria hunters … Antibiotics became known as the "magic bullet" for bacterial infections. Fire them into the body, and kill only invading bacteria. [p. 307].

It’s not just bad luck preventing virologists from repeating this kind of success.

But for viruses the problem was different. These are nonliving microbes, made of proteins, DNA or RNA, and sometimes even a tiny membrane - molecules all made entirely by human cells inside a human body.

How could any drug possibly discriminate between the production of proteins and DNA made for viruses and those made for their human hosts? [p. 307].

Precisely for this reason, explains Duesberg, when we have a bacterial infection we are offered an antibiotic but when we have a viral infection we’re generally told to rest and drink a lot of fluids.

Despite never-ending searches for "magic bullets" against viruses, the efforts have produced little but failure. [p. 307].

Sometimes, though, doctors do recommend an antiviral drug, with results that are often worse than a mere failure to neutralize a virus.

With Therapies Like This, Who Needs Disease?

That is the title of the chapter that Dr. Duesberg devoted to the main AIDS treatment in the early years of the epidemic, Azidothymidine (AZT). The drug was developed in 1964 as a potential chemotherapy to combat tumors. And combat them it did, much like dropping a nuclear bomb on a robbery suspect holed up in the center of a city.

Its creator, Jerome Horwitz, modified a DNA building block by removing one of its two links. Thus, rather than linking to the building blocks both before and after it, as building blocks are meant to do, it would link to the one before it but not to any after it, creating a dead end, as illustrated by Duesberg:

Horwitz's altered DNA building block, azidothymidine (AZT), surreptitiously enters the growing DNA chain while a cell is preparing to divide, and acts as a premature "caboose," blocking further DNA building blocks from being added.

In short, the cell cannot copy its DNA sequence and dies trying. AZT was the perfect killer of dividing cells. [p. 309].

AZT thus performed well in the laboratory, where it was shown to kill cancer cells. In animal experiments, though, it killed healthy, growing tissues of the mice, and eventually the mice themselves, together with the tumor cells of the mice.

Horwitz was so disappointed he never bothered publishing the experiment and eventually abandoned that line of research ... The drug was shelved, and no patent was ever filed. [p. 309].

Horwitz might have guessed this would be the result - after all, how would AZT know to block the dividing process of cancer cells but not healthy cells? All dividing cells were targets for AZT, causing grave damage to healthy tissues. Failing to so predict in the planning process, Horwitz was nonetheless prepared to accept defeat when the evidence stared at him from the mice themselves.

None of this discouraged the well funded AIDS researchers though, led by the long time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci. Having declared HIV the cause of AIDS, despite HIV being absent or inactive in almost all AIDS patients, the research dollars went not to finding a way to improve the lives of AIDS patients, but to destroying the harmless HIV in a test tube.

AZT met this criterion, but at such a cost to the humans hosting HIV that one would have expected approval for use of this dangerous chemotherapy to be near impossible to obtain. Its inventor thought so. What did Fauci know that Horwitz didn't?

Why public health officials like to resurrect failed drugs

Visit us soon to learn how the FDA’s revolving door is used to push through controversial and dangerous drugs, especially drugs like AZT that were abandoned during the research process due to their toxicity. Our series will also include a look at:

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