FoxNews23: Possible AIDS cure? (Report from 2009)
(2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dPyHTYS08
https://anonfiles.com/F9l4m152r4/HIV_AIDS_Cure_Dr._Gary_Davis_Part_1_PozFriends.org_mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqpTBXcTsQA
https://anonfiles.com/79S1mb56r7/HIV_AIDS_Cure_Dr._Gary_Davis_Part_2_PozFriends.org_mp4
Reported by: Janna Clark
Email: jclark@fox23.com
It's a story that started with a photographer who met a Tulsa doctor in Africa.
That doctor claimed to have a cure for AIDS. In fact, the national media have covered parts of this story over the years.
But we've uncovered evidence and interviews that have never been seen before.
FOX23's Janna Clark has this exclusive report.
A professional photographer from Tulsa, Doug Henderson has traveled the world and seen so many stories. But he’s kept the story behind one of his photographs to himself until now.
It’s a picture of a vial and the story about what’s inside that vial.
When a friend asked him to travel to Africa to take some photographs, he didn’t think it was a big deal.
"We had no idea what we were stepping off into at this point," Doug said.
But when Doug got there - what he saw – that turned out to be a very big deal.
In 2004, Doug flew to Africa to the Ivory Coast where he met a man from Tulsa, a man who made an enormous claim.
"He said I have what I believe would be the cure for AIDS," Doug said.
That struck a chord with Doug. He’d watched his brother-in-law slowly slip away from the virus. He was only 44.
"That’s a miserable way to die," Doug said.
So when the Tulsa doctor said he had a cure for AIDS, Doug was willing to hear what he had to say.
"I just have a soft spot for people who have HIV," Doug said.
The doctor was Gary Davis, a family practitioner who’d graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and who’d been a captain in the U.S. Navy.
In 2007, Dr. Davis died with an impressive resume.
But when Doug first met the doctor, he thought, surely a man with these credentials wouldn’t joke about having a cure for AIDS.
But Doug says he was skeptical, to say the least.
"I’m less concerned by what people say. I’d like to see the evidence," Doug said.
Doug says Dr. Davis told him dozens of his patients and even close friends had died from AIDS. And then he told Doug a bizarre story about how came up with the idea for his so-called cure.
"The way he tells the story, that night he had a dream. He doesn’t call it a vision, he calls it a dream, and in this dream he was injecting a goat with the hiv virus. And he understood from this dream he would be able to develop antibodies, a serum from goat blood," Doug said.
A cure for AIDS – from a goat. Doug was even more skeptical.
But as Dr. Davis told how he developed the serum, Doug says it did sound logical.
"I’ll say the explanation made sense, it was logical, plausible," Doug said.
Dr. Davis told Doug he first tested his theory in a lab in at Tuskogee University in Alabama in 1996. He injected goats with AIDS and instead of getting sick, they developed antibodies against the virus.
Dr. Davis’s assistant, Linda Wilmes, says the idea isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
"It's no different from the serum that a horse can make if you've been bit by a snake," Linda said.
In 2002, Linda went to Africa to help Dr. Davis in the Ivory Coast, and when she sat down with me, it was the first time she had ever told her story.
Linda says she and Dr. Davis first met two men who both had AIDS.
"They were very very sick," Linda said.
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Guess who didn't want to look into it at the NIH