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general AIDS testing and such degrees of isolation of AIDS
carriers as may be medically necessary. AIDS is not only
a very hot political issue; it is an issue filled with powerful
impulses for violence.
Although many among you may not yet realize this today,
your choices in the 1988 Democratic primary will either be
based on your legitimate fear of the AIDS epidemic's spread
to your community and among members of your family, or
these just fears will be at least one of the leading factors in
your choice of candidate. Since the issue will be a very hot
issue, some of the candidates, especially those seeking the
support of the very wealthy homosexual and pro-drug lob-
bies, will spread more and more false information about
AIDS, especially as we move into the fall 1987 period of
more intensive campaigning. It is important that a significant
number of citizens in every community in the state begin
to study the AIDS issue now, so that the majority of New
Hampshire voters will be able to make choices which they
would not later regret, during the final weeks of the primary
campaign.
I shall present the leading, presently known facts about
AIDS, trying to present these facts in a way which the
ordinary citizen can understand. Before doing so, I shall
identify my special qualifications to write on this subject.
As most of you know, I am an economist, a former
management consultant, by profession. Although I am a
leading expert on all aspects of economy, except stock and
bond markets, my particular specialty is what is known as
"physical economy," how technology affects the relationship
between the physical production and distribution of goods
and average productivity and standards of living of nations.
One of my sub-specialties, is the relationship between levels
of development of physical economy and the potential for
spread of epidemic diseases.
Back during 1973-1974, I organized a special task-force
to make a long-range analysis and forecast of the increase
of epidemics and pandemics in various parts of the world
during the late 1970s and 1980s. A forecast was produced
and published at the end of 1974, which forecast the general
increase of famines and epidemics during the 1980s, a fore-
cast which stands out as very accurate in light of the recent
years' statistics.
That forecast was based on the same statistical and related
information which specialists in epidemiology use for fore-
casting and analyzing famines and epidemics. My friends'
work interpreted these statistics from the standpoint of a
branch of biophysics known generally today as optical bio-
physics. This emphasis on optical biophysics proved to be
very valuable, as we concentrated more and more on AIDS
during the recent three years. We applied what we had
learned from cancer research, and consulted with a large
number of the world's leading medical specialists and bi-
ologists, to pull together a picture of every scrap of infor-mation known in Western Europe and the Americas about
AIDS. My own work is directly advised by a team including
a number of physicians and public health professionals. This
team digests the information we are collecting from our
contact with professionals in various parts of the world, and
advises me on my interpretation of this information.
More recently, during the recent months, we have used
the same computer facilities my friends use for economic
forecasting, to construct a series of computer models for the
forecast spread of the AIDS infection. These computer stud-
ies forecast the spread of the disease, based on existing best
knowledge of the behavior of AIDS and related kinds of
human and animal epidemics. This work is being done cur-
rently at a center in Western Europe, and progress in this
work is being reported occasionally in the international
newsweekly Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), as well
as in specialist papers written for the information of medical
and biological professionals, as well as agencies of gov-
ernments. I have written the designs for these mathematical
models, and teams of mathematicians and engineers are
transforming my designs into worked-out computer pro-
grams and reports.
I shall now summarize the most relevant facts which every
intelligent citizen should know. Then, I shall state both my
opinion on what we know, as opposed to what we do not
yet know. I shall include a proposed action policy for dealing
with this deadly pandemic.
1. What Is AIDS?
AIDS is one of the names for a variety of human and
animal infections, a class of infections which physicians,
veterinarians, and biologists began to recognize about fifty
years ago, beginning with studies of a killer epidemic among
the sheep of Iceland, called Maedi-Visna. Specialists in
Iceland were the first to recognize that Maedi-Visna was
caused by what seemed to be a new class of virus, called
"slow viruses." At first, many medical authorities and bi-
ologists refused to admit the existence of any kind of "slow
virus." Reluctantly, the professional journals admitted that
"slow viruses" do exist. Over the decades, it was recognized
that certain killer epidemics among sheep, horses, and other
animals, were caused by "slow viruses" very much like the
Maedi-Visna virus.
What we call AIDS is the first known appearance of a
killer form of "slow virus" epidemic in mankind. It is closely
related to similar diseases among animals, such as Maedi-
Visna, and also belongs to a group of such "slow viruses"
found to be transmissible among monkeys and apes. Some
of these "slow viruses" can be transmitted from monkey or
chimpanzee to man, and vice versa; in some species, these
infections appear to be harmless to the carriers, while in
others, they are killers.
The special features of these "slow viruses" include the
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Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. My Program Against AIDS, pamphlet, February 7, 1987; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc276216/m1/4/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.