Luc Montagnier Scientist Quotations

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

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.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

There are two main theories: that it kills the cells infected directly or that the cells die in an indirect way. Actually, I am open to both.

But it will be more and more difficult - and less and less ethical - to find populations in a natural condition of high infection.

I think in our campaign the most important time is 10 to 12 years old, before they get sexually active. At that time there is no sexual pressure.

We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.

The danger is that many people believe that AIDS is a treatable disease and should not receive more attention than other diseases.