Sorry but Patient Zero is a lie. AIDs has been documented as far back as the 1950's. It originated back in the jungles of the Congo and was widely spread when wholesale inoculations of polio vaccine testing ,carried out by Dr.Jonas Salk, occurred in the Belgian Congo. This test vaccine was grown in monkey kidney tissue from the jungles. This may have allowed the simian virus to jump host from beast to man. None the less, Salk working with a blood broker from Montreal carried out these rudimentary trials with the natives. Twenty years later, our blood broker is shipping plasma collected from the Zaire area to be used in fractionated blood products in North America and Europe. Hemophiliacs became the first victims with AIDS by the late 1970's. The rest is history.
05/11/2004 6:48:56 PM PDT
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to Askel5
I guess if I was indirectly responsible for the export of AIDs/Hep C prison blood around the world that may have infected over 75000 hemophiliacs around the world I'd have a guilty conscience too!
03/28/2004 11:54:07 AM PST
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to T'wit
Good post. This bad penny will be roling back into prominence shortly. The RCMP are closing in on Tommy-Boy and we should hear very soon about criminal charges in regards to the Arkansas Prison Blood scandal. the current Prime Minister of Canada and the past Prez of the USA both played a hand in the contamination of the blood supply (both sides of the border)bump and a drip!
01/06/2004 8:54:55 PM PST
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to Wallaby
Good catch and post. In the past countries like Egypt had mass vaccinations using retractable innoculators that they thought they could reuse indefinately. Turns out about 60% of those vaccinated has developed hepatitis C. It stands to reason that African countries with even less standards would be an accident waiting to happen for the spread of AIDS.