I’s recent the piece of news concerning the death of Fernando Aiuti, the 84 year old immunologist who established the ANLAIDS ( The National Association fighting against AIDS). The death occurred on 9th January at the Polyclinic “Gemelli” where he had been hospitalized because of a serious cardiopathy. His death is presumed to be caused by a fall into the stairwell on the fourth floor, close to the General Medicine ward. The Prosecutor’s office in Rome are investigating the case since they think, among the various hypotheses, the one of a suicide.
Without intending to support the latter hypothesis, certainly not pertaining to us, there are many cases of suicides in hospitals, that is to say people who choose a hospital, among them the Polyclinic “Gemelli”, to commit suicide.
On the contrary what greatly impressed us are the words of Rosaria Iardino who, together with Aiuti, shared the famous kiss in ’91.[1] [2]
Referring to the immunologist’s death Mrs Iardino says”…thank you Fernando,you’ll be eternal for some of us…”: actually Aiuti isn’t eternal, since he is dead, moreover, in such circumstances that when Iardino was asked:” Did you know how he died?” she answered ” yes,I did,I read that they think of a suicide, but I don’t want to make any comments”.
Actually the one who lives (and fights with us) is the Virus that is going on, in a softer and softer way, with the ecological function to check the exponential grow of human population (the principle of the feedback at genetic or negative retroaction stated in the book ” The Intelligent Virus”).
From the same book we know that:” when the virus can’t operate, man himself tries to slow down overpopulation”, for example with suicide. According to the thesis of ” The Intelligent Virus” also suicide is explicable with the mechanism at genetic feedback or at negative retroaction [3]. Aiuti should really have been eternal if for example he had discovered the vaccine against AIDS, like, for intsance, Edoardo Jenner[4], a doctor and a British naturalist, famous for the vaccine against smallpox and is considered the father of immunization.
Always speaking of immortality, eternity and paradoxically of suicide Gilgameš, the legendary King of the Sumirians and of Uruk, the protagonist of the “Gilgameš epic“, learnt in a dream he should never know the secret of immortality he had always been seeking. Then he decided to have a stone tomb with a golden roof built on the bed of the river Euphrates, the water of which had been diverted for the occasion. On the day of the inauguration, after entering the tomb with his family and the whole court, he ordered to restore the course of the river: the Euphrates flooded the mausoleum and the king together with all the other people drowned.
This way Gilgameš, remaining eternal as a myth, seems,somehow, to be successful in finding out the secret of immortality or eternity as we can say….. but he was Galgames!
[1] In 1991 during a Convention on HIV at the Trade Fair in Cagliari Prof. Aiuti kissed Rosaria Iardino, one of his seropositive patients, on her lips. The photo went round the world and deeply affected mass media by showing that the virus couldn’t be passed orally.
[2] How sometimes it happens, the mass media effect of an image may not correspond to the real one. The immunologist’s kiss to his seropositive patient wasn’t a real kiss, but a banal one like a kiss in a movie. A real kiss, for example the French one where the tongue is used, above all when there are some lesions in the mouth, allows a contact with the infected blood and so the virus passes particularly in the cases of the most aggressive subtypes ( ” the deep kiss” of the point 50 of the FAQ Hiv and Aids of the Department of Health- Last updating on 16th May 2017.
[3] In 2002 out of 57 milion dead people, only 172 thousand persons died in a war and 569 thousand died of a violent crime, in all 741 thousand victims: 873 thousand people committed suicide (source: The World Health Report 2004, World Health Organization, 124. Data acquired on 10th December)
[4] Edoardo Jenner wouldn’t give movie kisses and even did experiments on his firstborn. All this shouldn’t be accepted nowadays, but the point is that he went down in history not only as a scientist but also as a benefactor of humanity.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
Ferdinando Gargiulo offers you a new perspective on why new viral epidemics, assaults, infanticides, suicide epidemics and even environmental catastrophes. Always engaged in his research decides to create a blog to offer his readers content of high value.