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around killing people. The explanation fell short of a plausiblemurder motive.Acknowledging the possibility that Acer, a closet homosexualwho never came to terms with being gay, may have held avendetta against mainstream homophobes, I realized Acer'ssecond plausible motive. As an intelligent, scientifically trained,solo practitioner, the terminally ill dentist would have realized hecould never spread his virus throughout the entire U.S.population. What he could do, however, and what the evidenceshowed he intentionally accomplished, was to spread the fear ofAIDS in health care throughout mainstream America.In fact, the open letter Dr. Acer published, shortly before hisdeath, spelled out his two principal vendettas against Americanpublic health authorities and mainstream homophobic society.Within eight brief paragraphs, published in Florida newspaperson September 6 and 7, 1990, Acer condemned the CDC six timesfor their alleged involvement in the viral transmissions andarticulated his grave distrust of them. He ended by subtlyexpressing his fascination with the probability of initiating masshysteria throughout the United States:"It is important to be infonned of this disease, so you are aware ofthe dangers and how it can and cannot be transmitted. As fear ofthe unknown is hard to deal with, but knowledge of what you fearcan at least help you know what action to take, if any. . . ." [5]Following months of intensive investigation, HRS and CDCresearchers failed to report Parsons's testimony, or give seriousconsideration to the murder theory. Rather, they speculated thatthis first and only documented cluster of doctor-to-patient HIVtransmission cases was most likely "an accident." They publishedthat injuries sustained by a fatigued and shaky Dr. Acer, whoperformed "invasive" procedures on his patients, were the mostlikely cause of the infections and not negligence (that is, the useof un-sterilized instruments and equipment). In addition, afterhaving the Florida Attorney General's Office review the facts,they rejected the "murder theory."Later, following years of denial, the Barbara Walters interview ofEdward Parsons, and the identification of Acer's sixth victim,Sherry Johnson, who received no invasive procedures aside fromlocal anesthetic injections, the CDC exhumed the murder theoryfor plausible consideration. Dr. Harold Jaffe, Deputy Director forHIV/AIDS Science at the CDC, quickly concluded the casewould likely remain "an unsolvable mystery." [11]Adding to the confusion, in early June 1994, a CBS "60-MINUTES" report proposed that the victims themselves were toblame. The program accused Kimberly Bergalis, the elderlyBarbara Webb, and the others of concealing sexual practices andother lifestyle risks, and said their infections came from randomcommunity exposures. Though this disinformation was quicklyand easily debunked by official as well as independent