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Health/Medical Title: How the AIDS epidemic really began 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. 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? 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. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6.
#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.
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.
#7. To: redleghunter (#6)
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.
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