Posted on 02/22/2015 1:28:28 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
In Randy Shilts’ history of AIDS, “And the Band Played On,” he tells the story of an Air Canada steward named Gaëtan Dugas, who suffered from what Dugas called “gay cancer” and infected 40 people or more with HIV. He was, Shilts wrote, “Patient Zero.” Modal TriggerDugas, through his extensive travels and unrepentant, unprotected sex even after he was diagnosed, undoubtedly helped spread AIDS. But was he the man who brought the disease to America?
In the new book, “The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Rain Forest” (W.W. Norton), author David Quammen says no.
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Or just ate the monkey’s brain raw...
You do realize that eating monkeys and apes does exist, it’s called “Bushmeat”
I don’t know, but knowing how monkeys and apes eat their own kind raw sometimes, there’s all sorts of diseases that they could have on them, better stay away from eating them.
Well, it’s common in parts of Africa, I guess.
It’s common, but it’s not that wise for the exact reasons I just mentioned. The cannibalism that occurs among monkeys and apes allows all sorts of diseases to spread amongst the monkeys and the apes
Well, of course it’s not wise! But try telling that to superstitious and atavistic people.
LOL VERY FUNNY!!!!!!!!
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