One Of The World's Foremost Experts On The Disease AIDS Has Refuted Claims That The Killer Virus Was Man Made

Cambridge Based Dr Abraham Karpas is interviewed on the origin of AIDS.

Dr Abraham Karpas is interviewed in his Cambridge laboratory by Anglia TV reporter Owen Spencer-Thomas. Asked on what evidence he dismisses the claims made by Dr Seale, Dr Karpas says this type of virus has been known for over 30 years and it has variants which separately affect horses, sheep and goats. Asked for his response to the idea that the AIDS virus is a hybrid between the virus causing leukaemia and the virus affecting sheep, Dr Karpas says the molecular building blocks of the virus are already known, and there is no evidence for this theory (of man-made origin for AIDS). This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

AIDS; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Medicine; Medical research; Viruses

Additional Description

A Lithuanian-born British citizen, research virologist Dr Abraham Karpas worked in the department of haematology of the University of Cambridge Clinical School for 36 years. Amongst the achievements in his CV, Dr Abraham Karpas was the first in the UK to develop human leukaemia cell lines that can proliferate indefinitely in vitro. From 1985 he pioneered passive immunotherapy (PIT) treatment for AIDS patients. In 1985 he also developed an AIDS cell test for anti-HIV antibodies that enables anti HIV-1 and anti HIV-2 infections to be distinguished easily. Dr. John Seale proposed the idea that AIDS was a man-made virus (or at least, the result of a deliberate, unnatural introduction) during the mid-1980s. He was critical of the response to AIDS by the UK government and medical establishment.