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From: La Vonda R. Staples <lrstaples@gmail.com>
To: <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:27:00 AM GMT-0600
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Washington Post: Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago
Here's something simple: if the article is true why wasn't this a disease
transported to the New World? What has been has always been so why didn't
we see this illness in centuries when Africans were ALWAYS hunters and came
in contact with the blood of animals? Why?
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Okechukwu Ukaga <ukaga001@umn.edu> wrote:
> Nonsense! This is conjecture on steroids masquerading as news. There is
> no proven causal relationship between the chimps in Cameroon or anywhere
> else in Africa and HIV/AIDS in humans. The fact is that first AIDS cases
> were detected in the United States of America in 1981. This prompted
> extensive epidemiological work by CDC and others, which included
> interviewing the first 40 patients, and identifying the person most
> responsible for spreading the HIV –nicknamed patient zero, although he was
> actually patient #7 or so. Notably, it was only after we have had
> documented cases of HIV/AIDS in the USA and Europe, did HIV/AIDS then
> appear in Africa…most likely via tourists/visitors from the USA/Europe.
>
> -OU
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> By Craig Timberg<http://www.washingtonpost.com/craig-timberg/2011/05/17/AFM2rbAH_page.html>and Daniel Halperin, Published:
>> February 27
>> **
>> We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS
>> epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on
>> it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed
>> the course of history.
>> We now know where the epidemic began: a small patch of dense forest in
>> southeastern Cameroon. We know when: within a couple of decades on either
>> side of 1900. We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected
>> chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp's blood into
>> the hunter's body, probably through a cut during butchering.
>>
>> Read the rest here<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/colonialism-in-africa-helped-launch-the-hiv-epidemic-a-century-ago/2012/02/21/gIQAyJ9aeR_story.html>
>> .
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