USA Africa Dialogue Series - REMEMBERING DECADES OF PLAGUE TERROR CAMPAIGNS AGAINST AFRICA

The title of one of the editorials in the science journal, Nature, volume 538 of 27 October 2016 was : Rewriting history - A genetic analysis of HIV clears the man wrongly dubbed the source of the epidemic. The editorial was based on a letter to the Nature, titled : 1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America. The said letter was authored by Michael Worobey of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, USA, Richard A. McKay of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK, et al. The rewriters of AIDS' history were reported to have screened over 2,000 stored serum from 1970s that enabled them to estimate how long HIV had been in the US. This effort was undertaken for the sake of exonerating, the Canadian air steward, Gaétan Dugas, the Patient Zero, who was identified in a 1984 book on AIDS epidemic, And the Bands Played On, by Randy Shilts, as the source of AIDS epidemic in the US. Unfortunately, the rewriter of AIDS' history did not limit themselves to just exonerating Dugas from the blame of being the source of AIDS epidemic in North America but, instead, went on to reiterate Robert Gallo's old and unsubstantiated hypothesis of AIDS virus originating in Africa from where Haitian workers in the Congo were infected and returned to Haiti from where American homosexual tourists brought AIDS back to the US.

Hiding under science, the rewriters of AIDS history wrote, "The sampled sequences thus reveal a series of key founder events in the genesis of subtype B (.....) with the epidemic spreading from the African HIV-1 group M epicentre to the Caribbean by about 1967, from the Caribbean to NYC (New York City) by about 1971 and from NYC to SF (San Francisco) by about 1976, quickly followed by extensive geographical mixing in the US and beyond." The only difference between Gallo's old and unsubstantiated hypothesis and that of the rewriters of AIDS' history is the year of arrival of HIV from Africa into the Caribbean, from Caribbean to New York City and from there to San Francisco, now guessed to be about 1967, 1971 and 1976 respectively.

Dr Robert Gallo of the US National Cancer Institute and his friend, Professor Myron Max Essex were the two leading virologists that invented the story of Africa being the origin of HIV/AIDS. The attached document contains some of their postulations compiled by me and which other scientists  dismissed as rubbish. Until October 6, 2008, Robert Gallo was designated a co-discoverer of HIV with Luc Montagnier of France but when award for Nobel price in Medicine for the discovery of HIV was announced on that day, Robert Gallo's name was excluded because his so-called discovery of HTLV-III in April 1984 was suspected to be a carbon copy of LAV discovered in April 1983 by the French trio, Jean-Claude Chermann, Francoise Sinousi-Barré and Luc Montagnier. If the history of AIDS were to be rewritten, it should contain apology to Africans South of the Sahara for all the insults and humiliations Africans have been made to suffer as a result of false HIV/AIDS hypotheses placing the origin of the disease in Africa, South of Sahara and manufacturing HIV/AIDS statistics that made Africa contain over 65% of the infection in the world.

S.Kadiri