since it is unclear whether Gallo or any other researcher was ever able to isolate HIV,60 he took from his AIDS patients a sample of antibodies that he found in great abundance in their blood and made a leap of faith that they were HIV antibodies. Geneticists have pointed out that these antibodies may have been associated with tuberculosis or herpes, or any of the many other pathogenic illnesses that multiply in collapsing immune systems.61 Indeed, Gallo’s HIV antibody test also reacts to people with fever, pregnant women, and individuals who have overcome a tuberculosis infection.62
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