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AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old
ChazeFroy writes "A new study estimates that the AIDS virus, HIV, started to circulate in the human population between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908. This is much earlier than the previously-held estimate of 1930. 'The new result is "not a monumental shift, but it means the virus was circulating under our radar even longer than we knew," says Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona, an author of the new work.' The article also speculates that HIV first began to spread in Kinshasa, Congo."
Truly, truly insightful.
My only regret is that I have no mod points left.
The Apple bumper sticker included with your Apple purchase can also double as an AIDS awareness sticker...
davidwr's disease!
I walked right into that one.
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HIV = Tunguska event?
Haha, look at his comment history.
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1908 also was the last time that the cubs won it all.
Happy 100th birthday, HIV!
I'm stocking up on gas masks, spam, and guns, but after hearing that I'm also going to be stocking up on orange juice. Figure that'll be good for if I catch it.
Pinky: Ahoy Brain. We're almost out of spam, but there's a bunch of gelatine in here with bits of spam stuck to it. Do you want any?
Brain: [vomiting]
Pinky: Right, I'll save you some then. Zort!
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Did they make it in Area 51, where the moon landings were staged? It makes sense!
Only one small problem with your theory: How do the Illuminati fit in with this, and what about Kennedy? Until you resolve these two gaps in your theory, I'm afraid I won't be able to give it my full credence.
Ah, but maybe someone perverted enough to have sex with an infected monkey only comes around every 10,000 years or so.
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What diseases that crossed the species barrier in the last 30 years will we be talking about in 2078?
None. We'll all be dead from the Captain Trips by then.
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I'm skeptical. How could a disease with such a long incubation period not be recognized for over a century? It's not like needles or anal sex were invented in 1965. And then in a period of a few years become a worldwide epidemic? Yeah, I RTFA but I'm not buying the "city" hypothesis; it's not like people in the country don't have anal sex.
Thank you Slashdot non-expert for debunking the whole story thanks to wild guesses about the rate of propagation of STDs in the Congolese countryside!
You just got troll'd!
How funny that an add for "The Flexible Shaft Ratcheting Screwdriver" from ThinkGeek shows up, in an HIV/AIDS thread, and it's tag line is "More flexible screwing".
Har...
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I too blame it on a conspiracy that perverted our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
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