Luc Montagnier Quotes

“AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease.

It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.”

“Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.”

“It is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.”

“It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.”

“It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.”

“It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.”

“Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection – that would be very difficult – but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.”

“Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function.

If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.”

“Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.”

“The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.”

“They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying.

And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.”

“What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.”

“What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.”

“It's very simple, the variants come from vaccinations.”

“The new variants are the production, the result of the vaccinations and so you always see in the countries, even for India now it's the same, you have the vaccination curve and the death curve now following.”

“We have come to the conclusion that there has been manipulation of this virus.

A part, I do not say the total. there is a model which is the classic virus, coming mainly from bats, but to which HIV sequences have been added.

It is not natural, it is the work of a professional, of a molecular biologist, of a watchmaker of sequences.

What purpose? I don't know. One of my hypotheses is that they wanted to make an AIDS vaccine.”