Oh yes, back then, serious articles.. discussing HOW the disease may have spread from monkeys to humans.
Yeah? Try being a teen and having the monkey/human thing being proposed, prated, described in the newspapers, news media -- as "intelligent discussion". With details describing the "hypothesis". We're talking bestiality being presented and put forth under the guise of "intelligent, rational discourse" from ADULTS in public venues. I'm tellin' ya.. dog were running scared back then.