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Interesting news story  [message #53822] Sun, 05 October 2008 21:55 Go to next message
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Study pushes back origin of AIDS pandemic to 1908
By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The finding pushes back the origin of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by several decades, they reported in the journal Nature.

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http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE491050.html


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Re: Interesting news story  [message #53825 is a reply to message #53822] Sun, 05 October 2008 22:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It is not politically expedient to acknowledge that research, I fear.


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Re: Interesting news story  [message #53831 is a reply to message #53825] Sun, 05 October 2008 23:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Interesting news story  [message #53833 is a reply to message #53831] Mon, 06 October 2008 06:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Taking "the Gay Plague" and making it of "normal origin" is not going to allow "the moral majority" to attempt to keep gay folk in the ghetto.

By "the moral majority" I mean, of course, people like Sarah Palin

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Re: Interesting news story  [message #53835 is a reply to message #53833] Mon, 06 October 2008 08:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I didn't read it, but did it say there were no homosexuals in 1908?

I know better. STDs are spread by promiscuity and there was no Kinsey in 1908 to tell us how they behaved then, but I suspect that priests and churches were more dominant then than now and that people in the UK had far fewer sexual partners.

What it was like in sub-Saharan Africa is anyone's guess.

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Re: Interesting news story  [message #53842 is a reply to message #53835] Mon, 06 October 2008 09:16 Go to previous message
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It is worth reading. It makes no comment about sexual orientation, simply about the living conditions that allowed the causative agent to spread when it might otherwise have died out.


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