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10/05 - Ozzy Osbourne Mistakenly Diagnosed As Being HIV Positive
Blabbermouth.net reports that according to Mirror.co.uk, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he was diagnosed as being HIV positive.
The former BLACK SABBATH singer was devastated when he was wrongly told by a doctor that he had the disease.
He said: "I went to the doctor and had an AIDS test and he told me it was positive. That was one of the worst days of my life."
But Ozzy was granted a reprieve when a second test came back negative.
Doctors blamed the mistake on the singer's immune system which had taken a battering from years of booze and drugs. Ozzy, 60, who regularly slept with groupies in his heyday, told Glamour magazine: "When I used to fucking get loaded I would get myself into all kinds of situations.
"It turned out that because I was drinking and using drugs so much, my immune system had dropped so that it was a borderline result.
When I went back to be tested again it was negative." (source: King Hesh)
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In the lab the initial screening test that we use tests for HIV1 AND 2, these are the viruses that cause the disease state known as AIDS, the initial screen would be confirmed by a "western blot" test, which has some specific markers for the virus (a very basic description). Once a person has been diagnosed, we can then use the B and T-Lymph cells to keep track of how the disease is progressing or responding to treatment. In a case like Ozzy's, a false positive HIV screen would not be suprising, AIDS is at it's most basic form a weakening of a person's immune system, hence Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. NicDots you are correct in stating that a person who test positive for HIV will eventually develop AIDS, there are however, a few exceptions were a person will not only not develop the disease, but also revert to a "negative" HIV test, those cases are rare but they do happen.
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