Editor's note: It is evident that in this topsy turvy world, tuberculosis causes, and perhaps is one brand of AIDS. What HIV has to do with anything stretches the limits of logical argument.

The news item may as well read, "...tuberculosis drug isoniazid could help reduce by half the number of deaths from brown-eyed-related illnesses among children..." Or, "...colleagues administered isoniazid to 263 brown-eyed children either daily or three times weekly..."

Hasn't TB been around for hundreds of years before the advent of "AIDS" or HIV+ ? A quick search reveals that indeed, "Mycobacterium tuberculosis has infected humans for thousands of years. Fragments of the spinal column from Egyptian mummies from 2400 BCE have been found that show definite pathological signs of tubercular decay." (source: goshen.edu; NJ Medical School TB Center.)

But in this, the AIDS era, according to AIDS "experts" and AIDS lovers all over the world, TB isn't just TB. It is remarkably, officially, now an AIDS related illness. Wow. Do people actually believe this absurdity? Couldn't the former European colonialists and the U.S.A. assuage their guilt by providing TB treatments, clean water systems, sanitation technologies, and food-production technology transfer, along with a few billion bushels of grain and vegetables? I guess it wouldn't be as exciting as The AIDS.
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TB Drug Isoniazid Could Help Reduce By Half Child Deaths From AIDS-Related Illnesses, Study Says

The inexpensive tuberculosis drug isoniazid could help reduce by half the number of deaths from AIDS-related illnesses among children, according to a study published earlier this month in BMJ, the Pretoria News reports.

Heather Zar, head of pediatric pulmonology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in South Africa, and colleagues administered isoniazid to 263 HIV-positive children either daily or three times weekly. The children also were given the drug Bactrim, which they were taking for HIV in accordance with World Health Organization recommendations.

The researchers observed a 50% reduction in the number of deaths and a 70% reduction in the number of TB cases among the children, according to Zar. She added that isoniazid reduced deaths among children at all stages of HIV infection, as well as in children with a range of other illnesses. The researchers did not observe any serious side effects.

The study was scheduled to continue for two years, but the drug was shown to be so effective in preventing deaths that the researchers halted the placebo part of the trial. Zar said the use of isoniazid with Bactrim among HIV-positive children might become routine. The researchers plan to conduct a second stage of the trial to determine whether the results are similar among children taking antiretroviral drugs (Caelers, Pretoria News, 11/21).

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