How do you explain about an AIDS case in the 1950s? I read in The Hot Zone, that HIV may have came from an island in Lake Victoria in Uganda. The epicenter is the northwestern shore of Lake Victoria.
I am referring to the one in St Louis.
Hey, I don't explain 'em, I only quote 'em. ;')
A friend who worked at a local AIDS resource center claimed that tissue samples surviving from puzzling autopsies had pushed the AIDS diagnosis (ex post facto) back to 1920, or some such. I think that is just a wacky myth, and have my doubts that any such study has ever been done. I guess I could go check...
Anyway, the first diagnosis of AIDS took place around 20-25 years ago, and AFAIK there's no solid, unrefuted evidence to justify any earlier diagnosis.
We should have destroyed the rain forest when we had the chance.