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]

...there would HAVE to have been a monkey/human hybrid born at some point

I know there's a GWB joke in there, I just know it... too bad he wasn't the one whose birth certificate is missing, that would be a zinger now!

Racial overtones aside, why couldn't the same joke be made about Obama? We strive for a color blind society, right?

Re:How?

[ArcherB]

That's your best example? One weird diversion to talking about pie? I have no idea why he would go off on a tangent like that, but it's nothing compared to Bush's mistakes (there are whole compilations of those on youtube). So even if the media actually did ignore his mistakes (given that a pie discussion if the best you could come up, that's pretty much proven wrong), then youtube should provide an accurate picture.

You have Bush's eight years as president plus his years as Texas governor plus four years as a president's son and another four as the vice president's son. Papa Bush was also head of the CIA, but I don't know of any vids from that era.

With Obama, you have a couple years as a state senator (a job that is ignored by the media), a couple years as a senator and a few months as president.

So of course there is going to be be more on Bush. But the point remains that the press will NOT show Obama in a negative light. If you don't believe this, you are being delusional. Also, it doesn't hurt that has Biden as a gaffe machine.

Still, the point is not what you can find on YouTube. It is what is shown on TV, which is what the 99% of the public sees. Most people don't do you-tube searches.

Re:How?

[ArcherB]

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?

At the time he made the "stupidly" comment, it was not a negative thing. It was just a white cop arresting an poor old black man with a cane in front of his own home. It wasn't until we found out that Gates had broken into his own house, refused to show ID, followed the police man out into the street, made a scene and insulted his mother before he was arrested. It was also not known at the time that the officer was actually a police academy instructor on racial profiling or that there were black officers on the scene that backed the arresting cop. So when Obama made the comment, he was being shown as a man of action, not a man sticking his nose where it didn't belong.

You seriously believe that Obama and Bush receive equal treatment? I recall Bush being called a fascist on MSNBC. No such criticism when Obama took over a major American industry (GM) and fired the CEO.

Sorry, but I never saw a reporter say that Bush made a thrill go up his leg!

Re:How?

[ArcherB]

Obama has been called a communist on Fox News. There you go again!

Right! What do you call it when the government takes over industry? Is that not the textbook definition of communism? So, how about the other twenty or so networks? Why are they not connecting the dots? There's only two dots to connect; the definition of communism and what is happening.

I'll see your one FoxNews "Obama=Communist" and raise you a MSNBC "Bush=Fascist". The difference is that Bush left office when his term was up. A true fascist wouldn't have done so. But Obama is taking over American industry! First banking and insurance. Then the auto industry. Next on the target list is health care. I'm sorry. Do you know what communism is?

Re:How?

[ArcherB]

Sad that when we are talking about media bias, you bring HuffPo. HuffPo is never a unbiased source. Expecially considering that the person who said it is NOT a FoxNews employee.

Still, what do you call a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership?