New HIV Strain Discovered

reporter and barnyjr were among the readers alerting us to the discovery of a new strain of the HIV virus, found in a woman from the west central African nation of Cameroon. "It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine. ... The most likely explanation for the new find is gorilla-to-human transmission, Plantier's team said. But... they cannot rule out the possibility that the new strain started in chimpanzees and moved into gorillas and then humans, or moved directly from chimpanzees to both gorillas and humans. ... Researchers said it could be circulating unnoticed in Cameroon or elsewhere. The virus's rapid replication indicates that it is adapted to human cells, the researchers reported."

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Re:How?

[ArcherB]

Well, to be fair, so far Obama doesn't seem to have the education of a chimp, so the parallel doesn't really work out. He's actually pretty witty, I can't think of any major bloopers and blunders he showed during press conferences or TV shows.

Then you're not looking hard enough. There are plenty of Obama gaffes. They all happen off-teleprompter. See, with Bush, every misstep was shown on every news program, every advertisement for every news program, every nightly talk show, plastered all over the web and anywhere else it could be shown.

With Obama, any gaffes are ignored by all except for a few conservative blogs. For example, imagine if Bush had done the following:
PIE!!!
It would have been on every news cast, every talk show etc. Since it's Obama, it's ignored.

As for Obama's education, have you seen his school records? Neither has anyone else. He won't release them.

Re:How?

[bunratty]

The press are reporting that Obama's approval rating dropped sharply after his comment that the police "acted stupidly" by arresting Gates. You're obviously wrong that the press will not show Obama in a negative light. Could it be that you have some sort of bias that is clouding your perceptions?