For more than a decade my newspaper, New York Native, warned New York and the rest of the world that HHV-6 was the key to the AIDS epidemic and was causing all kinds of other problems like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and cancer. The New York Times and the rest of the media mocked my newspaper and was happy when it went out of business.You can read the story of my newspaper's struggle to get the word out about HHV-6 in Truth to Power.
The gerrymandering of AIDS inflammation
If AIDS is primarily a disease of inflammation, could one say that the nosology that has separated AIDS from other inflammatory conditions that exploded at the same time is a kind of nosological and epidemiological gerrymandering? There is increasing scientific discussion around the role of chronic inflammation in the pathogenesis and progression of AIDS. HIV infection is now known to activate multiple inflammasomes, triggering a chronic inflammatory response that persists even with suppressed viral load and effective ART. This has led some researchers to frame HIV/AIDS as a disease substantially characterized by unresolved or dysregulated inflammation. However, the established nosology (disease classification system) of AIDS has historically focused on its immunodeficiency aspects, categorizing it primarily by vulnerability to opportunistic infections and secondary cancers, and as distinct from classical inflammatory or autoimmune syndromes. This system separated AIDS from other...
