CORONA, Calif., August 20, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Since its discovery, the AIDS virus has spread at a rapid rate across the globe, infecting areas heavily and killing millions of adults in their prime. As many doctors and researchers clamor for a cure, others are still trying to understand where HIV came from. Author Philip E. Smart believes he has an answer, which he presents in AIDS: The Final and Fatal Foreign Service Boondoggle: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Officer (now available through 1stBooks).
"The reader should know that this work contains the truth ... The facts about the development of the AIDS pandemic are based on personal knowledge, direct conversations with eyewitnesses to the programs and practices mentioned and information from reliable sources," Smart states.
Researched extensively, the book presents evidence for the origin of HIV. It was health workers in Haiti who, while working to wipe out one disease (yaws), caused AIDS to arise, Smart says. To eradicate yaws, they administered large doses of penicillin to the population, thereby suppressing the immunity. By reusing the same needles, they effectively mixed the people's blood and the dormant African virus became -- like Ebola -- one of the newly emerging diseases. Then, in the following malaria eradication schemes, they further spread the AIDS virus by taking blood samples of the whole rural populace using pen points, split in two, for needles. Eventually, the virus was widespread among poor peasants, who, fleeing drought and starvation, flocked to the capital and lent their bodies in prostitution to survive.
"Homosexuals from western cities, especially New York, San Francisco and Paris discovered Port Au Prince. They flocked to Haiti to take advantage of desperate poverty and innocence of the Haitian peasants who asked "Bam yon 'ti bagay" (give me some little thing) ... Horribly, the one little thing that they did give them was the opportunity to pass on that little virus, which had dwelled benignly in African blood from the beginning of time, but which had now multiplied a million times," Smart states.
Smart says these infected people returned to their countries with the virus and "proceed[ed] to pass on the deadly virus to their lovers and new sex partners and to others back home and eventually, with the help of the American Red Cross, to the rest of the world."
This compelling work contains a controversial look at one of the worst diseases ever to attack the planet.
Smart fought in World War II with the original rangers, Merrill's Marauders. He was a public health biologist and worked for two decades as an international expert in malaria with the World Health Organization (WHO) and public health advisor with the U.S. Agency for International Development in five tropical countries. AIDS: The Final and Fatal Foreign Service Boondoggle is his first book.
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