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Democratic Congressional Candidate's Ties to

Bizarre AIDS Research
Dr. Victoria Wulsin I s Under Attack for Her Ties to a Debunked Research Project Seeking
to Cure A I D S with Malaria

By JOSEPH RHEE ©NEWS

July 3, 2008 2 comments

The Democratic congressional candidate in Ohio, Dr. Victoria Wulsin, is FONT SIZE A AA
being attacked by her Republican o p p o n e n t for her w o r k looking into a B8 EMAIL
widely d e b u n k e d theory t h a t AIDS can be cured w i t h malaria. The S PRINT
controversial t r e a t m e n t , k n o w n as "malariotherapy", has b e e n denounced □ SHARE
by leading AIDS researchers as d a n g e r o u s , scientifically u n f o u n d e d a n d
unethical.

U.S. Representative Jean Schmidt

(R-OH), locked in a t i g h t race w i t h Wulsin
for a n Ohio congressional s e a t , recently
s e n t o u t a fund-raising letter sharply
denouncing Wulsin for her work o n a
malariotherapy project. The letter s t a t e s
t h a t "Wulsin's c o n t e m p t for t h e culture of
life has even led her t o participate in
g r o t e s q u e medical experiments. Wulsin
w a s paid for her w o r k in medical
"studies" w h e r e victims of AIDS in Africa
a n d China were...injected w i t h t h e
malaria virus, all in t h e name of "scientific
Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Victoria inquiry."
Wulsin on a visit to Africa. Dr. Wulsin is under.. . ▼
(Dr. Victoria Wulsin)
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Dr. Wulsin, a n epidemiologist w h o h a d w o r k e d w i t h AIDS patients in Africa, w a s hired in 2 0 0 4

by t h e Heimlich I n s t i t u t e in Cincinnati t o conduct research into malariotherapy. The institute is
h e a d e d by famed doctor Henry Heimlich, inventor of t h e life-saving Heimlich maneuver a n d as
r e p o r t e d o n ABC News 2 0 / 2 0 , a leading p r o p o n e n t of using malaria t o cure AIDS. I n t h e
1990s, Heimlich commissioned a study w h e r e AIDS patients in China w e r e deliberately
infected w i t h malaria a n d he w a s recently involved w i t h a research project involving AIDS
patients from Ethiopia w h o w e r e initially denied available medicines t o t r e a t malaria.

According t o Dr. Heimlich, " I t gives off substances t h a t

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w w w. G FTForex. com ethically questionable. And it does have t h e fundamental
potential of actually killing y o u . "
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Online® Despite t h e assertions in Rep. Schmidt's letter, Dr. Wulsin
Kaplan University* Online told ABC News in a n interview last year t h a t she never
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Site. Apply Now! directly participated in malariotherapy experiments a n d
www.Kaplan.edu w a s only hired by Dr. Heimlich t o review existing
Buy s link here malariotherapy studies. "He commissioned a literature
review a n d I d e m o n s t r a t e d t h r o u g h t h a t , t h a t it w a s
n o w h e r e near scientific or ethical relevant or justifiable," said Wulsin.
In December of 2004, Wulsin submitted a draft report to Heimlich that FONT SIZE A AA
concluded that "the preponderance of evidence indicates that neither Q EMAIL
malaria or Immunotherapy will cure HIV/AIDS." Wulsin said the following @ PRINT
day she was fired by Heimlich. " I challenged the science and ethics of O SHARE
immunotherapy, malaria therapy. I didn't realize how much it was a
challenge to his ethics and his science until he fired me," said Wulsin.

A complaint about Wulsin's involvement with Heimlich's

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malariotherapy project was filed with the Ohio Medical
Dr. Board in 2006 by Robert Baratz, head of the National
Heimlich's Council Against Health Fraud. This April, the board sent a
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obcNEWS 'Maneuver': letter to Wulsin stating that "no further action was
Cure AIDS required by the Board and the complaint was closed."
With Malaria Wulsin's involvement in malariotherapy research was also
an issue during the 2006 congressional elections, when
she was also matched against Representative Schmidt.
Wulsin narrowly lost that race to Schmidt by a scant 2,800 vote margin in the heavily
Republican 2nd district of Ohio. The latest polls for this year's contest show Schmidt leading
Wulsin 41 to 33 percent.

This post has been updated.