On April 6, 2011, Ministry of Health spokesperson Deng Haihua introduced the investigation of the self-reported suspected HIV infection (hereafter referred to as Yin AIDS) population. The investigation concluded that HIV infection in this population can be ruled out, there is no evidence that the disease described in this population is contagious and aggregated, and there is no clinical, laboratory and epidemiological evidence to support that this population is suffering from a certain infectious disease. At this point, an AIDS fiasco that has caused much panic has finally come to an end. So what kind of disease is AIDS? What are the experts’ opinions on HIV/AIDS? How to explain the similarity between the symptoms of HIV and AIDS? The legend of AIDS has been fermenting on the Internet for years. As early as late 2009, patients reported to the Ministry of Health claiming that they might have been infected by a mysterious pathogen of negative HIV. According to the self-reports of some parties, this virus is similar to the transmission route of AIDS, and some symptoms similar to the acute phase of AIDS have appeared in themselves. All of the patients with negative HIV were tested several times, the most one even 30 times, and the rest were tested at least 5 times, and the final results were negative.
From September 2009 to January 2010, CDC experts contacted the population through the Internet and recruited 59 “self-reported suspected HIV-infected persons” to conduct the first survey on a voluntary basis. On January 6, 2011, having identified HIV-negative patients with no new viruses, the CDC sent 58 blood samples (one patient did not wish to have blood collected) to a viral testing facility at the University of California, San Francisco for retesting, which can test for 15,000 viruses and many unknown viruses. By March 31, 2011, testing of 1/3 of the samples indicated that no known or unknown viruses were found.
On the basis of the first survey, the Ministry of Health organized experts to develop an epidemiological survey program for “self-reported suspected HIV-infected people” and carried out epidemiological surveys in 6 provinces and cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan and Guangdong in February and March 2011. A total of 40 people have been surveyed, including 15 people who participated in the first survey. No abnormal results were found.
Combining the results of the two surveys, experts from the Ministry of Health believe that the possibility of HIV infection in this population can be ruled out at this time, that there is no evidence that the disease described in this population is contagious and aggregated, and that there is no clinical, laboratory and epidemiological evidence to support that this population has a particular infectious disease.
Background Knowledge In the opinion of many clinicians, most cases of Yin AIDS should fall under the category of Islamophobia, the full name of the disease is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome phobia, a psychological disorder characterized by an intense fear of AIDS and accompanied by a variety of psychological symptoms and behavioral abnormalities such as anxiety, depression, obsessions, and suspicion.
Most of the patients with AIDS phobia have had high-risk premarital or extramarital sex, and the objects of the sexual behavior are often clandestine prostitutes, hotel escorts or hair salon girls, and some are women with confusing sexual relationships that they met online. On the one hand, these risky sexual behaviors do increase the chance of HIV infection; on the other hand, because such behaviors are not allowed by social moral norms, they are often internally condemned by moral and social pressures.
Patients with AIDS phobia often have psychological and physical manifestations that are different from the norm, and many believe that this condition is due to HIV infection. They repeatedly call hotlines for advice or take frequent tests for HIV antibodies. After each visit to the doctor, after getting a negative test result and careful explanation from the doctor, the psychological burden is temporarily relieved, but before long, new doubts will arise again, always thinking that the test is inaccurate or the available reagents cannot detect their virus. This makes it necessary to go to the hospital again and ask for a test.
AIDS phobia is a psychological disorder that has emerged only in recent years, and with the rapid spread of AIDS worldwide, the number of infections is still increasing.
Conclusion 1. Hysteria is at work from it According to the self-reports of patients with AIDS, they have many symptoms, including lint on the tongue, painful swelling of lymph all over the body, large blood spots on the skin, rash, muscle throbbing, bizarre ringing and pain in the joints, unusual insect crawling sensation and pain in the muscles, flatulence and diarrhea, pharyngitis, night sweats, general weakness, paralysis of the hands and feet, inflammation of the gums, mouth ulcers, anorexia, Rapid weight loss, cardiac arrhythmia, sleeping convulsions, Candida albicans infection, and abnormal cytological indicators. A significant number of these symptoms are similar to those of the acute phase of AIDS. So how does this condition arise?
Most experts believe that the symptoms in patients with yinzhi disease are due to psychiatric factors, the so-called hysteria. Freud believed that “hysteria” is only one kind of psychological disease, which originates from psychological factors and produces symptoms through a specific psychology. The etiology is closely related to psychological factors, and various unpleasant states of mind, anger, and fright are the triggers, followed by reoccurrence due to association or re-experiencing the emotions of the first episode, and triggered by suggestion or self-referral. In the history of medicine, there are numerous cases of physical illnesses caused by hysteria, such as the case of Anna Ou, studied by Freud, and the case of November 12, 1998. In the history of medicine, there are many cases of hysteria leading to physical illness, such as the case of Anna Ou, studied by Freud, and the poisoning of over 100 students and teachers in a high school in Warren County, Tennessee on November 12, 1998.
Professor Li Xingwang of Beijing Ditan Hospital was involved in the investigation of AIDS. He found that most of the people tested had no obvious organic lesions, and the few with abnormal biochemical tests did not match the clinical symptoms they complained of. The assessment of both somatic and neurological symptoms showed that the symptoms were mainly due to psychiatric factors. In addition, the results of the “psychological assessment” conducted by Ditan Hospital on the above-mentioned 59 self-reported suspected HIV-infected patients also showed that the psychological health level of these people was significantly lower than that of the general population. defense approach”.
3. The CD4 indicator is not indicative The decline of CD4 cells is considered by some self-reported suspected HIV infected people as evidence of AIDS. On January 17, 2010, Zeng Guang, chief expert of the Chinese CDC, and Zhang Jianzhong, deputy director of the CDC’s Institute of Virus Research, spoke with 30 patients in a health classroom at Ditan Hospital. At that time, these patients had just been examined by authoritative experts, and all of them were ruled out of the possibility of HIV infection. They had a common sign, a continuous decline of CD4 cells, only 400 or so, below the normal level of 700. And it is the CD4 cells that the HIV virus attacks. In addition, they have symptoms such as swollen lymph, white tongue and ringing joints. Zeng Guang explained that there is no disease diagnosis that uses CD4 as the main indicator. There are some people, even normal people, whose CD4 is just low, and there are many diseases that can cause lower CD4; there are also people with mental anxiety that can cause lower CD4, such as fatigue syndrome.