Posted on 01/17/2002 12:38:00 PM PST by Outraged At FLA
Did Bill Cosby say this? If so, then why is the U.S. working on a vaccine? Doesn't make sense to create a virus to wipe the mout and then create a vaccine.
I've heard of the lunatic theory, but not that Bill Cosby endorsed it. Do you have a source? Anyone?
In other words, they still don't know.
Hint: God will not be mocked.
No. Rape, incest, child molestation is the norm over there. They spread the plague via their liberal, literally, sexual perversion. A man can grab a woman and rape her on the street. No one stops him or even notices.
With Planned Parenthood International, there is no need for a killer virus. Wonder if Cosby supports their activities in Africa.
78% of abortion clinics in America are located in minority areas.
Bawahahahahahahahahah!
Best not to share your banana with goats either.
Here's a translation of the mishmash in this article - somebody has found SIV (not HIV) in wild chimps in East Africa, when SIV is normally only found in simians in West Africa. That's it.
“It obviously confirms and extends the theory on the origin of AIDS,” said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama,
This is simply not the case. There is no indication whatever that intraspecies transmission of the virus is either recent or for that matter even a fact - it's a theory, and the evidence is not complete. This study has nothing to do with intraspecies transmission of anything.
"To find this virus for the first time in the wild opens a window of opportunity,” added Hahn’s co-author, George Shaw of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
This is not the first time it's been found "in the wild," that's where they found it in the first place. It's the first time it's been found that far east.
Let's pray that they were misquoted - if not, Cosby has a better chance at the Nobel than these folks.
Six hundred and fifty years ago, the Black Death was stalking Europe. It arrived on ships from Asia, carried by fleas that had infected rats on board the ships. Before it burned itself out, the epidemic had killed about a third of the European population.
Today, another plague - AIDS - has ravaged the world. Although it seems very different from the Black Death, there is one eerie similarity. Both the Black Death bacteria, Yersinia pestis, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, home in on macrophages, which are scavenger white blood cells of the immune system.
Now, in a provocative report, scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Md., say they have found that a genetic mutation that protects against the AIDS virus, by preventing the virus from entering macrophages, emerged in Europe around the time of the Black Death. And, they have found, this AIDS resistance gene is astonishingly common in people whose ancestors lived in areas of Europe that were ravaged by the Black Death.
The HIV resistance gene destroys a protein, called CCR5, that pokes out of the surface of macrophages, the large white blood cells that can engulf and kill viruses and bacteria.
Scientists have discovered that when HIV infects a person, the virus goes straight to the white blood cells and in particular the macrophages, latches onto CCR5 and another protein, CD4, to hoist itself inside. It lives there for about a decade, throwing off billions of genetic variants. Eventually it makes a variant that can get into another type of white blood cell, the T cells. Then the infected person's immune system starts to decline, and the terrible symptoms of AIDS appear.
People who inherit two copies of the HIV resistance gene can only be infected with HIV if they happen to come in contact with a virus from someone in the late stages of infection, when the virus can go straight for the T cells, said Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien, who is chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the cancer institute.
O'Brien and others have found that 10 percent of Caucasians have a copy of the gene, which slows the progress of HIV infections by several years, and one percent have two copies, which provides nearly complete immunity to HIV.
The HIV resistance gene is most common among British and other northern European people, and declines in frequency further south. Thus, it is present in almost 14 percent of Swedes but appears in only about 5 percent of Italians and is absent in Saudi Arabia. It is absent in Africans, American Indians and Asians. The gene emerged in the Caucasian population long after Caucasians split from Asians, which was about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, O'Brien said. And so, although the bubonic plague began in Asia, the HIV resistance gene is not there.
By GINA KOLATA N.Y. Times, May 26, 1998
I remember when it was a big sotry, and Limbaugh was talking about it, but as for sources, I have only one that I just quickly searched on the Net (and it is not that great):
"Bill Cosby saying that AIDS was "started by human beings to get after certain people they don't like." "
http://www.grandconspiracy.com/synopsis.html
But, you could probably find more just by doing a "cosby aids" search. I remember in fact seeing it on the news here in NY (I think Fox5) when it came out.
I am in the middle of cooking dinner or I could probably search you out a better source. :P
Do you seriously suppose that for the past 5 million years in Africa, all human males consistently turned this down? How about the last FIFTY years? Five, anyone?
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