Suge Knight’s Claims Of Injecting A Person With AIDS Evaluated By Doctor

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EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Altshuler, MD discusses the possibility of “shooting” someone with AIDS-tainted blood.

Suge Knight’s claims of injecting a person with AIDS have been evaluated by Laurence Altshuler, MD. 

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2003, Knight discussed how a person could be injected with AIDS. 

“They got this new thing out,” Knight said at the time. "They get blood from somebody with AIDS and then they shoot you with it. That’s a slow death. An Eazy-E thing.”

Eazy-E died due to complication from AIDS in 1995.

Dr. Altshuler says the scenario Knight describes is possible.

“If somebody wanted to give somebody AIDS and they’re sharing needles, that would be the way to do it,” Dr. Altshuler, the Director of Oncology Intake at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. "They would use the needle on themselves. As long as they have active HIV virus in them and it’s in the needle. It can be transmitted to somebody else.”

But just because someone attempted to purposely give someone else HIV, which can develop into AIDS, doesn’t mean that it would be successful. 

“The statistics show that the chances of getting it from one needle stick is 0.6 to 2.4 percent,” says Dr. Altshuler, the author of the Doctor Say What? book series, which includes Part I: The Inside Scoop on Getting the Best Health Care and Part II: The Guides: What Works and What Doesn’t - Step-by-Step Integrative Treatments for Over 90 Medical Conditions. "So basically, one to two people out of a hundred will get HIV from a needle stick. That’s dependent on two factors. Number one is the level of the HIV, how much the virus is in the injection, and then the quantity of blood. The more the quantity, the more the HIV virus, the more chances you’re going to get it.” 

Beyond that, the tainted blood or transmission device — which include needles and water used to flush out a syringe, as well as bottle caps, spoons and filters incorporated into the drug using process — would have to be cared for in a specific way.

“HIV generally doesn’t survive outside the body, but it can survive for up to 28 days if it is sealed within a syringe,” Dr. Altshuler says. "So, if someone had some in a syringe and they capped the syringe and then sealed it, it can last for 28 days.”

In practice for 39 years, Dr. Altshuler said that he’s only heard of one case where a person purposely injected AIDS into someone. It was earlier this year when Dr. Samir Chachoua, a physician claiming to know how to cure cancer and AIDS, reportedly injected himself with the blood of Charlie Sheen, who announced in November that he is HIV positive.

The video in which Suge Knight claims a person can be injected with AIDS, is as follows: