Is HHV-6 really a pig virus just like HHV-8? What is the African Swine Fever connection? Was Beldekas right?
https://edoc.rki.de/bitstream/handle/176904/2873/26CmQlAjmEymo.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Neenyah Ostrom, writing in The New York Native, June 15, 1992 stated: [ASFV also strongly resembles CMV, according to retired USDA Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory ASFV researcher William Hiss. In a 1971 textbook, African Swine Fever Virus, Hess pointed out that “...Herpes simplex virus and ...human Cytomegalovirus have morphological appearances similar to ASF virus when seen in thin sections.” In other words, when tissue infected with ASFV are examined under the microscope, the ASFV “looks like human herpes virus.
https://keephopealive.org/report10.html
How the American science Robert Gallo may have stolen the African Swine Fever research of a Boston University scientist and may have given African swine Fever the fraudulent new name of "HHV-6."
"In August, 1986, John Beldekas was invited to go to the NCI and present his findings on the link between ASFV [African Swine Fever virus] and AIDS, which he did. Beldekas gave samples of all his lab work to Gallo. Later, the government asked Beldekas to turn over all his reagents and lab work to the government, which he did. Beldekas had found ASFV presence in nine of 21 AIDS patients using two standard procedures. At the meeting, Gallo was reported saying: “we know it is not ASFV.” How could Gallo know this as he hadn’t done any of his own tests to look for ASFV?
Two months later, Gallo published an article in Science (Oct 31, 1986) that he discovered a new possible co-factor in AIDS, a virus he called Human B Cell Lymphotropic Virus which he named HBLV. Like ASFV, HBLV infected B cells and also lived in macrophages. Did Gallo steal Beldekas’s ASF virus he found in AIDS patients and rename it HBLV? Later on, when Gallo found that HBLV could also infect other immune cells, he changed the name of HBLV to HHV-6. Eventually, Gallo identified his HBLV as the variant A strain of HHV-6 and called it a human herpesvirus."
--Mark Konlee
Two months later, Gallo published an article in Science (Oct 31, 1986) that he discovered a new possible co-factor in AIDS, a virus he called Human B Cell Lymphotropic Virus which he named HBLV. Like ASFV, HBLV infected B cells and also lived in macrophages. Did Gallo steal Beldekas’s ASF virus he found in AIDS patients and rename it HBLV? Later on, when Gallo found that HBLV could also infect other immune cells, he changed the name of HBLV to HHV-6. Eventually, Gallo identified his HBLV as the variant A strain of HHV-6 and called it a human herpesvirus."
--Mark Konlee
