Ted Turner should reverse himself and compel his CNN news station to tell the truth about the creation of HIV/AIDS by US government as a bioweapon and, largely, ethnic-specific.
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iirc, AIDS is thought to have crossed from non-human primates (most likely chimps) to humans, probably via the latter hunting the former for food (and the contact with blood and so on that butchering carcasses entails).
Not to legitimize these types^ but is there any definitive evidence on the origin of AIDS whatsoever?
Lots, although none of it is super definitive. As in, if we data mine the old records some of the people who died of "mysterious illnesses" actually died of HIV-AIDS decades before it hit the news. So it has definitely been around as a virus since before we had proved that viruses existed, let alone could begin to hope to design them.
Oh that and there exists a class of viruses called SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) that infect many different primates, and they all have enough traits in common that they can transfect themselves into humans if regular vectors like blood contact are available. Indeed, HIV-1 and HIV-2 are both closely related to different strains of SIV that we find in other primates. The most common shows closest connection to an SIV strain found in chimps, while the less common HIV-2 shows closest similarity to one found in sooty mangabeys.
Now the question of "How did SIV jump from chimps and sooty mangabeys to humans?" is one that modern science can't answer, because it could easily have been a single isolated event hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
But it has little to do with the United States, because it probably predated the United States. Exponential growth is a bitch, those curves can stay below the visibility threshold for a long time and then go crazy out of control in an eyeblink.
-Frank
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