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Title: How the AIDS epidemic really began
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New York Post
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/how-the-aids-epidemic-really-began/
Published: Feb 22, 2015
Author: Stephen Lynch
Post Date: 2015-02-24 05:17:17 by Tooconservative
Keywords: HIV, AIDS
Views: 1628
Comments: 7
In Randy Shilts’ history of AIDS, “And the Band Played On,” he tells the story of an Air Canada steward named Gaëtan Dugas, who suffered from what Dugas called “gay cancer” and infected 40 people or more with HIV. He was, Shilts wrote, “Patient Zero.” In the new book “The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Rain Forest” (W.W. Norton), author David Quammen says no. “Dugas himself was infected by some other human, presumably during a sexual encounter — and not in Africa . . . somewhere closer to home,” Quammen writes. “As evidence now shows, HIV had already arrived in North America when Gaëtan Dugas was a virginal adolescent.” Using molecular genetics, researchers have now traced the exact strain of HIV that became a pandemic — HIV-1, Group M, Subtype B — to its original source. Amazingly, through examination of genetic samples from humans and chimps, Quammen reveals scientists have found exactly when and where AIDS started — even a probable theory as to how. They are the first warnings of what is happening.
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Dugas, through his extensive travels and unrepentant, unprotected sex even after he was diagnosed, undoubtedly helped spread AIDS. But was he the man who brought the disease to America? 
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
In other words, AIDS was spread by modern medicine. Perhaps the Jehovah's Witnesses are wiser than we know in refusing all blood.
Kind of hard to escape that conclusion, eh? At the very least, the re-use of needles and syringes in the Third World. Anyway, I like this very short summary of what modern molecular biology and DNA studies have revealed. For decades, we had a lot of misinformation. Now we know a lot more and the picture is very different.
The guy is a professional author and tree hugger who has to rely on information from others that may or may not be accurate.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
A first-rate education (Yale, Rhodes, Oxford). Written for National Geographic and other science/nature periodicals for decades, written a lot about the Ebola outbreak. Lives in Montana for decades, apparently loves trout fishing. Your cookie-cutter accusation that he's just another tree-hugger doesn't move me much. It seems unlikely he fits the mold as much as you want to assume. You are suggesting that molecular biologists have some ax to grind to conceal the origins of HIV or that somehow the truth is being kept from the public. The real truth is that the public just is too stupid to be interested in the question of the origin of AIDS. And that is because it is just some boring science thing. The only reason anyone cared about it to begin with was because the .gov was trying to scare them to death over it. Which worked as well as scaring the public into the Iraq invasion so I guess you have to bet with the cynics on the general gullibility and mental laziness of the average American. This book is apparently a followup to his 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.
That doesn't impress me one lick, how many politicians/judges have the same and are total ideological idiots? My point was he is only repeating what others have said before, which may not even be true.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Or, perhaps we are being fed this version of HIV spreading around the world by the homosexual lobby. Yet they will still deny the most common way HIV is sexually transmitted is through sodomy. Those cases of HIV exploding in one decade did not happen in monogamous relations.
"Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out." (1 Timothy 6:6-7)
Have you been hanging out with that Deckard kid? LOL. No, I don't think anyone is actually hiding anything or that this is an attempt to cover up the basic facts about the spread of HIV.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
In other words, AIDS was spread by modern medicine.
#3. To: TooConservative (#0)
#4. To: CZ82 (#3)
The guy is a professional author and tree hugger who has to rely on information from others that may or may not be accurate.
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
A first-rate education (Yale, Rhodes, Oxford).
#6. To: TooConservative, CZ82, Vicomte13 (#2)
Anyway, I like this very short summary of what modern molecular biology and DNA studies have revealed. For decades, we had a lot of misinformation. Now we know a lot more and the picture is very different.
#7. To: redleghunter (#6)
Or, perhaps we are being fed this version of HIV spreading around the world by the homosexual lobby.
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