NEW YORK, March 31, 2008
"This Beautiful Gene"
Mutation Enables HIV-Positive Son Of Late AIDS Victim Elisabeth Glaser To Live Symptom-Free
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Jake Glaser on The Early Show Monday (CBS)
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Elisabeth Glaser, left, and daughter Ariel (CBS)
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Jake, 23, credits what he calls "this beautiful gene" he inherited from his father, actor Paul Michael Glaser, of "Starsky and Hutch" TV fame, for enabling him to escape the virus' wrath so far.
Jake's mother, Elisabeth Glaser, contracted the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth to Jake's sister, Ariel. It turned out that Elizabeth had unknowingly passed the virus on to Ariel through breast milk and that Jake, had contracted it in-utero.
Ariel lost her battle with AIDS in 1988, and a devastated Elizabeth was inspired to try to help save her son Jake and others like him from the same fate.
With the help of two friends, Elizabeth founded the
Elizabeth succumbed to AIDS in 1994, but the Foundation's work continues, and Jake has picked up the torch.
His rare mutation, of the CCR5 gene, delays the onset of AIDS by restricting the HIV virus' ability to enter white blood cells. Jake's father has the same mutation which is, doctors say, why he didn't contract the virus.
Jake says he feels 100 percent healthy, despite having stopped all HIV-related medications.
He's traveled to Africa to meet children and lectures at college campuses across the country.
Jake told his family's tale on The Early Show Monday, calling the story "pretty amazing."
The mutation, Jake told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez, has enabled him to "carry the voice of so many children, so many people around the world who don't necessarily have the ability to travel and give a voice."
Calling the mutation "a wonderful positive defect," Jake speculated that it might play a role in finding a cure for AIDS one day. ... I really do think it could lead to huge breakthroughs for the medical community."
"I love speaking to people about" living with HIV today. It is, he said, very different than when he was young, and many people spurned him and his family because so little was known about AIDS at the time.
To watch the interview, click here.
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WOW..I''m not sure..WOW jessh your upset.
I hope that Jake can somehow find the truth and set him free.
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My last post.
The homeless man lived on the street - did drugs and drank alcohol, smoked - etc., and is a HEALTHY man to this day...still living on the streets and NEVER got AIDS - and still reads HIV positive. The ONLY one of his friends ALIVE and the difference is - he did NOT take the AZT and his friends did. I hardly call AZT a "miracle drug", maybe a better word could be (in my opinion) is a DEATH SENTENCE to those that take or took it. I am not sure if they even use it anymore - because of so many deaths and the controversy of the drug.
He needed to take a look at these webpages: Copy and Paste webpages to your browser to OPEN.
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm
I had hoped the days were over
that the pharmaceutical companies were going to cover
for these drugs. I do not believe there is anything called HIV (no virus), but that the HIV medications CAUSED AIDS.
Instead Jake Glaser - in my opinion should be SUEING for wrongful death of his mom and sister, and not promoting AZT as a miracle drug - when it could have been what killed two members of his family. Maybe he just believed a LIE all these years, and needs to know the truth, and can "someday" be a spokesperson to really HELP.
Please get this information to Jake - so he can at least do his own research on HOW his mom and sister died. The truth sets us free! I don''t think he knows the truth. Jake seemed like such a nice kid - I felt he really should have this information. I know someone from high school that took AZT and died too, and left behind a daughter with no mom (she also died after her boyfriend died). I also believed the HIV lie too - UNTIL I meet a homeless man in Times Square that told me and someone I was with that day..that he was diagnosed with HIV back around 1982 along with about 5 of his friends (all drug users - with needles) and his friends took the AZT and felt great for weeks (as at first it killed off all bad viruses in their body assumably - but THEN it supposably kills off your natural immune system - what fights sickness and ends up killing you from my understanding) and then a long painful death that took about 8-9 years.
I got this (when I tried to post a comment); however, it never allowed me to post.
"The Publish button will be enabled shortly. We have temporarily disabled it so everyone has an opportunity to comment."
I planned on posting a "summary" of the following:
March 31st, 2008
I just watched the interview with Jake Glaser this morning
and felt it was very SAD that this story came
out to "promote" AZT, a drug that probably
caused his mom and sister''s death - and his life
is saved because he is not on such a drug.
Why didn''t that show do a story on the December 2007
VERDICT of the women that won millions because
of the HIV tests - and showed she had signs of AIDS
"from" the medicine?
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/aids.htm
I think it is a shame with all the NEW information out there that points to HIV does NOT cause AIDS - that dear Elizabeth did not have. Didn''t even JAMA (well respected medial journal) say recently that HIV does NOT cause AIDS - if I am not mistaken - and to the best of my knowledge JAMA allegedly said HIV does "NOT" cause aids. And the VERDICT in Mass. in 2007 for MILLIONS over HIV testing - etc., WHY are we going BACK IN TIME - who is benefiting from this? It is sad ! And I think someone is USING Jake Glaser and he just doesn''t know any better...and it is wrong wrong wrong...as that new gay judge would say.
RETHINKING AIDS.............
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/aids.htm
RETHINKING AIDS.............
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/aids.htm
RETHINKING AIDS.............
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/15/aids_experiments_on_children_in_new_yorks_incarnation_center_a_human_tragedy.htm
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/aids.htm
Even if a cure were developed, it would never see the light of day. Remember, curing a disease is nowhere near as profitable as a lifetime of "treatment" with drugs, even if that lifetime is only a few years.
- by hbevis March 31, 2008 5:14 PM EDT
- THIS IS A GREAT STORY. IT WILL BE WONDERFUL IF A CURE FOR AIDS CAN COME OUT OF THIS.
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