There's a story in the Science section of the New York Times today that describes an exciting new discovery in AIDS research. It seems that the primate version of the HIV virus (SIV) has been found in chimp droppings in the forests of Cameroon, Africa. This is important because, for the first time, the virus has been discovered in chimps outside of the laboratory, in their natural habitat. The prevailing theory of chimp-to-human transfer of SIV/HIV is that it occurred in West-Central Africa. African hunters ate infected monkeys and eventually carried the virus to Kinshasa, Congo, where the first human case of AIDS was documented in 1959. The virus spread from there to cause havoc worldwide.http://tinyurl.com/n94lt
More studies need to be done to fully convince the conspiracy theorists that HIV was not a government program designed to wipe out specific segments of the US population.
http://tinyurl.com/hph3o
1 comment:
Good luck with that... I've heard some doozie theories in my time!
(It's the white man, don't you know; it's the government, don't you know; it's the gay people, don't you know...)
It never ceases to amaze me how good science becomes twisted into loony toon bunk.
Thanks, Eyedoc!
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