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Chuckleberryfinn said:You putz, the first known HIV case has been traced to a plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Zhu, Tuofu, Korber & Nahinias. "An African HIV-1 Sequence from 1959 and Implications for the Origin of the Epidemic" Nature, 1998: 391: p. 594-597
How can the virus have been laboratory manufactured in the 70s if it was traced back to 1959 and determined to have been a naturally occurring biological organism (as opposed to a synthetic one, as you say)?
You know, certain people on this board NEVER seem to fail to dissapoint me, and amaze me at the same time.
In 1959 AIDS DID NOT EXIST. THERE WAS NO MENTION OF AIDS, AND NO ONE KNEW ABOUT IT! PERIOD.
Here is what Wikepedia says about the AIDS virus:
In the beginning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not have an official name for the disease, often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus.[53][54] They also used Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981.[55] In the general press, the term GRID, which stood for Gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[56] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the homosexual community,[55] the term GRID became misleading and AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[57] By September 1982 the CDC started using the name AIDS, and properly defined the illness.[58] In 1993, the CDC expanded their definition of AIDS to include all HIV positive people with a CD4+ T cell count below 200 per µL of blood or 14% of all lymphocytes.[59] The majority of new AIDS cases in developed countries use either this definition or the pre-1993 CDC definition. The AIDS diagnosis still stands even if, after treatment, the CD4+ T cell count rises to above 200 per µL of blood or other AIDS-defining illnesses are cured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS
GRIDS, was the first official name for AIDS. It wasn't even until 1982 when the term AIDS was first used to describe the disease. And what did GRIDS stand for again? Gay-Related-Immune-Deficiency-Syndrome. This was a horrible term by the way, because Gay people had nothing to do with the creation of the AIDS virus, or the reason for it.
Now...if you look at the top other 3 search results for the term Discovery of AIDS on yahoo, you will find these little tidbits of information:
Today, as when it was officially first recognized on June 5, 1981, this vicious infectious agent remains unique even within its own classification of retroviruses. classification of retroviruses.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/06/05/after_25_years_of_aids_the_news_only_gets_worse/
Now, that article plainly states that AIDS wasn't even officially recognized until the year 1981.
Or how about this article, again, which is at the TOP of the list of search results for the words "Discovery of Aids":
On June 5, 1981, scientists made a terrible discovery. They discovered the cause of a disease that was killing people by the thousands. The disease is called AIDS. That stands for "acquired immune deficiency syndrome." AIDS makes people very sick. It is caused by a virus. Your body is made of millions and billions of cells. Your body is able to fight off most diseases because some of these cells are very special. They are called T-cells. Could that be because they are so tough?
http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_35_886.html
Now did you all read that CORRECTLY? It clearly states that at the time of June 5th, 1981, the AIDS virus was only killing people by the thousands. Not hundreds of thousands, not millions, thousands. So therefore, there is no way in hell that the AIDS virus had been around for almost 20 years previous to that as some of you are claiming.
Now I don't blame you for being misunderstood, but not a SINGLE one of those articles claims anything about the AIDS virus stemming from the 1950's. Not a single one.