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“We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.”

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Christine Maggiore

Christine Maggiore was an American activist and author known for her advocacy against the use of antiretroviral drugs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. She founded the organization 'Positive Living' and wrote a book on the subject. Her views were controversial, and she passed away from complications related to AIDS on December 27, 2008. more

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