21. So-Called "HIV" Antibody Test --- Part1: ELISA

So-Called HIV Antibody Tests -- Part 1: ELISA

By Richard Jannaccio 

HIV AIDS Medical Testing: "HIV Testing"

(claimed) HIV Antibody Tests include ELISA and Western Blot

Part 1 -- ELISA Test  

ELISA = Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay (ELISA)

By Richard Jannaccio

Bronx, NY

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• The Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA) test is commonly and inappropriately used to screen for, and even diagnose, so-called "HIV infection." It is relatively simple to do the test and also relatively inexpensive. Its inherent high sensitivity is touted as if that is a good thing, and, indeed, it is a good thing for the pharmaceutical companies who need people who test positive as potential customers for their pricey and poisonous pharmaceuticals. But this "high sensitivity" means that even antibodies in the blood that were not made as a result of exposure to the test protein will react, producing a "false positive" result. 

• In the case of the "HIV test," the protein used is only assumed but not verified to originate from the never-purified elusive HIV, and therefore, all positive results are best deemed false positives.
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• The ELISA test was originally designed, and is best suited, for testing large numbers of samples, particularly in blood testing centers. It is totally inappropriate for diagnostic purposes, as the package inserts once clearly stated.
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• More than 40 different ELISA test kits are available, but only about 10 are licensed by the FDA for use in the United States.(1) None of these were approved to be used to diagnose HIV infection in individuals, although that is how they are used. However, such unapproved use is legal  in the USA and is referred to in the medical profession as "off-label use." Although doctors can legally use tests and prescription drugs for unapproved purposes, it is illegal for the manufacturer to market their products for such use. (2)
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  How an ELISA test works: Antibodies in your blood sample are allowed to react with the antigen-coated plastic of the test chamber, which is manufactured using a variety of chemical markers that will produce a visible result that varies with the amount of antibody that has bound to the protein.

• The sensitivity of the test can be altered by the manufacturer. An arbitrary level of reactivity is chosen by the manufacturer to distinguish "positive" from "negative" because there is, in fact, a continuous spectrum of reactivity. In other words, although "positive" and "negative" may give the impression of a black-and-white situation where reactive antibodies are either present or absent, the reality is that almost everybody has reactive antibodies and the test is produced to show positive only if the reactive antibodies exceed a certain arbitrarily chosen level. 
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• Regardless of the method used to make the reacting antibodies visible, the antigen-antibody reaction remains the constant basic principle of all ELISA tests. The goal is to detect antibodies, but the presence of reacting antibodies does not lead to any valid, accurate, or definitive extrapolation or diagnosis beyond the mere observation that you have reacting antibodies to a protein used in the test.

• (1) http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-02-02-01#S5.1X
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• (2) http://us.practicallaw.com/8-525-5657#a1043285

• Lee Evans Speaks Out about the HIV Tests
• 1968 Olympic Gold Medal winner Lee Evans discusses the myriad of problems with the HIV tests that are incorrectly diagnosing people as HIV-Positive.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7wo2KTkaQ
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• How The (ELISA) HIV Antibody Test Works In Theory
• Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) - Multi-Lingual Captions
  This short animation demonstrates use of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to measure specific antibodies.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRbuz3VQ100
  
  10 Reasons Why You Should Not Worry About A Positive Test Result
  http://helpforhiv.com/
  
  "HIV Test" Questioned Meditel Report: Interviews with Scientists and Medical Doctors who Evaluate the so-called "HIV" Antibody tests and other related topics by Filmmaker and Journalist Joan Shelton 
• Is the "AIDS Test" Accurate? Many people are surprised to learn that there is no such thing as a test for AIDS. The tests popularly referred to as "AIDS test" does not test for AIDS, nor does it test only for HIV infection, nor does it even test for HIV infection at all. The so-called "HIV test" has not been proven to test for HIV and any diagnosis that is made based on the result of such a test is of such highly questionable validity that it should be deemed invalid until proven otherwise.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0EHiZWP40E
  
  HIV test Is Worthless -- a slideshow of facts
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yaOWuybfjc
  
  Original Historical Documents
• HIV Test 2014: Historical documents of relevance to the "discovery" and "testing" of the so-called, unproven "HIV"
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnAnyJBwhk
  
  Per i documenti originali scaricabili vedere: 
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/135713547/Hiv-La-Frode-Scientifica-Del-Secolo-documenti-Ufficiali 

• Here Are Some Of The Issues Challenging The Validity Of The ELISA Test:
• The antigen is assumed 1) to come from HIV, and 2) to be unique to HIV. The problem is that HIV has never been proven to exist, so the assumption cannot be proven. 
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  The protein (antigen) used in the manufacture of the test was not originally derived from purified HIV, and therefore not proven to be an HIV protein, much less a unique HIV protein. If the source or uniqueness of the protein is in question, then whatever the test is testing for must also be in question.
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  Despite what the video says, antibodies also "cross-react" so if antibodies from your blood react with the protein used to manufacture the test, it does not necessarily mean that you have that same protein in your body, yet that is the assumption that will be made. In fact, there are 106 different factors that can result in a positive test result, and none of them have anything to do with HIV. (personal communication with Christine Johnson who formerly published 70 that were known previously).
  http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cjtestfp.htm
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• Legitimately, no conclusions can be drawn with respect to HIV even if the protein came from purified HIV, which, of course, it has not, because HIV has never been purified.
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  The most you can say with some degree of certainty is that you have antibodies that react with a protein of uncertain origin, and even if you knew for certain the origin of the protein, your antibodies may have been made to any of many different proteins whose antibodies cross-react with this mystery protein in the test kit.
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  The test is not approved by the FDA for purposes of detecting the presence of HIV or antibodies to HIV. Yet that is how it is used. For many years the fact that the test was not approved for diagnosing HIV infection was clearly stated on the package inserts that could be read by lab technicians, but rarely, if ever, by patients. The package inserts on the do-it-yourself rapid tests had to be changed to blur this information.
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• The test produces a high number of false positives. (up to 100% false positives).
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  Knowing this, who would ever agree to be tested? Or if tested, who would take the results and any related interpretations and/or diagnoses seriously?