Jonathan Campbell is convinced that the cause of AIDS is not HIV but a little known African Swine Fever virus.

There are others who say that the pathogen is not HIV but a manipulated form of toxic mycoplasma, which mysteriously appeared in the environment, after research into such novel toxins had been conducted by US biological warfare labs. Nexus magazine carried an article that links neurosystemic diseases to mycoplasma fermentans incognitus.

Mycoplasma fermentans has been detected in both AIDS and CF patients and are said to be a co-factor for those disease states, but there is no agreement as to whether there has been intentional modification of the pathogen to bring about disease.

Whatever the case may be, here is the story of Karen who prompts us to take a closer look at the possible connection between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HIV-Negative AIDS...

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Do I have CFS or AIDS? Or are they the same thing?

I have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS/ME) and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic lymphocytopenia. With these two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the medical establishment seems unable to admit or to acknowledge. I also believe it makes me living proof that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS are basically the same mysterious immune disorder.

Three years ago, after a heterosexual sexual encounter, I became seriously ill with what looks like the natural disease progression of AIDS. After an "acute infection" and a "period of asymptomatic health", I have fallen extremely ill to an unrelenting, progressively-worsening AIDS-like demise. I can pinpoint exactly when I was infected with my "chronic viral syndrome of unknown etiology" and because the "acute infection" stage was so distinguishable, I can also pinpoint exactly when my undiagnosed illness left my body and infected yet another host. I am a link in a chain of systemically undiagnosed, sexually-connected, heterosexual sick people. Whatever I am currently dealing with, it strongly resembles classic textbook HIV/AIDS disease. But, to add to my inquiry, I also clinically satisfy the CDC's criteria for the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Increasingly, I have become concerned that my systemic diagnosis is caught up in the treacherous politics of CFS/ME and AIDS. Most people with CFS/ME do not like to talk about the many symptoms and immune abnormalities that they share with AIDS patients. I also suspect that most ailing patients would rather be told that they have the very mysterious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome than to be told that they have AIDS.

I have a Master's degree. I am a director at my firm. I used to be a triathlete. I have never used IV drugs. I have never traveled abroad. I can count my sexual partners on two hands. Statistically speaking, I know that my undiagnosed infectious and communicable disease is not rare........so, you tell me, if they are not in the miscellaneous CFS/ME category, where are all these other immunosuppressed people?