(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - An analysis of the confidential medical report on Yasser Arafat's death reveals three main possibilities as to the cause: poisoning, AIDS, or an infection. Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi, Arafat's personal physician, said he knows that French doctors found the AIDS virus in Arafat's blood. Prof. Gil Lugassi, president of the Israel Hematologists Association who read the report, said that the symptoms described could be typical of AIDS. Another senior Israeli physician who read the report said, "It is a classic case of food poisoning" that should have been countered with antibiotics.
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