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To: CobaltBlue
BTW, you want to "draw" some strange conclusions, take a good look at Walt Disney's characters, most particularly the ones in "Fantasia".

He had a Great Grandpa Keppel Disney. Without knowing more than two things, that "Keppel" is a name that does, in fact, appear among the Saami dwarves, and "Keppel" is the name of a mountain in Norway that carries a heavy burden of the Little Red Man (Amanita Muscaria) in season, you could be forgiven if you came up with the thought that Uncle Walt knew some stuff, eh?! (Then, there's amanita muscaria - is this Mini Mouse in a cute red dress filled with white dots just like that mushroom ?

53 posted on 02/22/2004 4:43:57 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah; jennyp; AdmSmith; VadeRetro
Speaking of drawing strange conclusions, try this on for size:

HIV-1 is thought to be a zoonosis man got from the chimpanzee(actually chimpanzees get an SIV which is closely related to HIV-1, but not actually HIV-1 while HIV-2 is thought to be a zoonosis man got from the sooty mangabey (again, an SIV which isn't exactly the same as HIV-2). Chimpanzees don't get the SIV which is closely related to HIV-2, while sooty mangabeys don't get the SIV which is closely related to HIV-1.

HIV-2 probably appeared in man circa 1940, HIV-1 probably appeared in man circa 1950-1960.

Why would two such different diseases appear in the same host at about the same time and place?

One hypothesis: dirty needles. But that begs the question of origin. This article hypothesizes that viruses humans infected with SIV recombined into HIV - which would probably mean that the SIV precursors of HIV-1 recombined into HIV-1, while the SIV precursors of HIV-2 recombined into HIV-2 but that still leaves the very strange coincidence.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11405938&dopt=Abstract

And what about the Norwegian sailor infected with HIV-1 prior to 1971?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9468138&dopt=Abstract
54 posted on 02/22/2004 5:23:11 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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