What Is the Medical Rational for Using AZT?
The HIV retrovirus depends on DNA synthesis for multiplication and AZT ends DNA synthesis. Therefore, AZT should terminate AIDS, if HIV causes AIDS, and if HIV multiplies during AIDS. Research shows that HIV does not multiply very much during AIDS, if at all. In fact, numerous studies show that only 1 in 1,000 lymphocytes are ever infected by HIV, even in people “dying” from AIDS. Because AZT cannot distinguish between an infected and an uninfected cell, 999 uninfected cells must be killed to kill only one HIV-infected cell. Lymphocytes, or T-cells, are an essential part of the immune system that maintains health. The immune systems of people who take AZT and other anti-HIV drugs are progressively weakened by their medications. Consequently, the people become increasingly vulnerable to a wide range of opportunistic infections, many of which are life threatening. In addition to the destruction of the immune system and other blood cells, AZT also kills dividing cells everywhere in the bo
