[Beckwith]

Does the name "Patient Zero" ring a bell with anyone?

Patient Zero was the Air Canada steward who almost single-handidly is responsible for the AIDS epidemic.

In the early 80s, he had copious, unprotected sexual liasons with hundreds of men. All the while infected up to the eyeballs.

THose hundreds of men had unprotected sex with thousands of otherf men. The rest is history.

[BigM]

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.