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I read an interview with this guy in the daily Mirror (tabloid fodder) talking about his exploits. I think that the reason in the gaps between him being told that he was in fact clear and now are that at first he assumed that there was a mix up in the original test. This then went to the GMC (general medical council) and eventually court, for a review of procedures, which determined that he was in fact tested correctly and that the positive HIV result stood. The main reason that he thought that he had AIDS was that he caught it from his gay lover who was previously diagnosed. After the initial positive he dispensed with the safe sex feeling that it was now pointless. So I guess I can imagine that to then find you weren't HIV after all, would make you think that there was a problem with the service side of things. I don’t know for sure but I suspect that the case went to court when he was seeking out compensation, which I can’t say that I blame him for. Perhaps the selling of the story to the tabloids was to cover legal fees?
As far as the topic of a fishy story, I think that the most likely thing here (if it is not true) would be a cover up. This could be by the health authority to try and stop dead any claims of compensation that may arise, although I am assuming that has been checked through carefully.
In the article that I read he was well and truly up for being the savior of mankind. Ready to bleed like JC on the cross for all of mankind was the way that it came across. Actually this is the only thing that got my nerves about the guy. Doctors and scientists will be the ones that actually put his freaky blood into a good use, effectively all he has to do is give a bit of blood. Maybe my standards are unrealistically high, but I don't think that this warrants the status of savior just yet.
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