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Ntfs_encryption
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AIDS virus invaded U.S. from Haiti: study
By Will DunhamMon Oct 29, 5:43 PM ET
The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.
Michael Worobey, a University of Arizona evolutionary biologist, said the 1969 U.S. entry date is earlier than some experts had believed.
The timeline laid out in the study led by Worobey indicates that HIV infections were occurring in the United States for roughly 12 years before AIDS was first recognized by scientists as a disease in 1981. Many people had died by that point.
"It is somehow chilling to know it was probably circulating for so long under our noses," Worobey said in a telephone interview.
The researchers conducted a genetic analysis of stored blood samples from early AIDS patients to determine when the human immunodeficiency virus first entered the United States.
They found that HIV was brought to Haiti by an infected person from central Africa in about 1966, which matches earlier estimates, and then came to the United States in about 1969.
The researchers think an unknown single infected Haitian immigrant arrived in a large city like Miami or New York, and the virus circulated for years -- first in the U.S. population and then to other nations.
It can take several years after infection for a person to develop AIDS, a disease that ravages the immune system.
DISEASE MULTIPLIES
"That one infection would have become two, and then it doubles again and the two becomes four," Worobey said. "So you have a period -- probably a fair number of years -- where you're dealing with probably fewer than a hundred people who are infected.
"And then, as with epidemic expansion, at some point the hundred becomes 200, you start getting into thousands, tens of thousands. And then quite rapidly you can be up into the hundreds of thousands of infections that were probably already there before AIDS was recognized in the early 1980s."
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The path the virus traveled as it jumped from nation to nation has long been debated by scientists.
The University of Miami's Dr. Arthur Pitchenik, a co-author of the study, had seen Haitian immigrants in Miami as early as 1979 with a mystery illness that turned out to be AIDS. He knew the government long had stored some of their blood samples.
The researchers analyzed samples from five of these Haitian immigrants dating from 1982 and 1983. They also looked at genetic data from 117 more early AIDS patients from around the world.
This genetic analysis allowed the scientists to calibrate the molecular clock of the strain of HIV that has spread most widely, and calculated when it arrived first in Haiti from Africa and then in the United States.
The researchers virtually ruled out the possibility that HIV had come directly to the United States from Africa, setting a 99.8 percent probability that Haiti was the steppingstone.
"I think that it gives us more clear insight into the history of it (the AIDS epidemic) and what path the virus took -- and hard objective evidence, not just armchair thinking," Pitchenik said in a telephone interview.
Studies suggest the virus first entered the human population in about 1930 in central
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Cynique
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Wonder why the virus was so concentrated in the gay community? And to a lesser degree among needle-using drug addicts. The researchers should have addressed this issue, even if they did nothing more than to speculate about it. |
Chrishayden
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Wonder why the virus was so concentrated in the gay community? And to a lesser degree among needle-using drug addicts
(Some more populations they'd like to wipe out) |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Some more populations they'd like to wipe out"
For the most part, it can only happen if you let it. You're still here aren't you? White gay men were the first group to be hit the hardest. But they got wise and started a very aggressive campaign to openly address the issue and most of all EDUCATE! Negros have failed on both fronts. Now you know.
AIDS is no longer a secret in the modern world. You know how you can contract it. Don't want want to be infected? Try having sex with condoms, don't share your needles, don't have sex period or if you're a woman, have sex with only women. Follow those suggestions and you can dramatically cut down the numbers of new AIDS infections. End of subject.........
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if you're a woman, have sex with only women.
Uhm, excuse me! True, that would greatly reduce one's risk of contracting the HIV virus, but that also involves a drastic lifestyle change/choice. The overwhelming majority of women throughout the world are heterosexual, as are men. Suggesting that straight women sleep with other women exclusively to cut down on our risk of HIV infection is not a viable solution. I believe you'll be hard-pressed to find straight women who decided to become lesbians just to reduce their risk of HIV infection. Praise be to the D1CK!
Your other suggestions are great: don't share needles, use condoms, limit your number of sexual partners - and don't forget your regular annual physical - get tested! |
Cynique
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All good advice, but it is still not an explanation as to why this virus took such a toll on the gay community. When HIV first came on the scene just as many heterosexual people as gays were neglecting to use condoms and all they got were babies! |
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^^^ I've wondered about that myself. I've read one theory that the higher rate of HIV infection amongst gay men is due to anal sex. Sure, heterosexual couples "go there" as well, but straight couples have "more options;" and that option amongst straight couples is usually savored for those real freaky-deaky times. Whereas, gay men only have that one option. (I'm stumbling all over my words trying to keep this as clean as possible). As least that's what I read, but it still leaves lots of unanswered questions. |
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Yea, maybe the anus provides a more friendly enviroment for the HIV virus to survive in. LOL. |
Chrishayden
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AIDS is no longer a secret in the modern world. You know how you can contract it. Don't want want to be infected? Try having sex with condoms, don't share your needles, don't have sex period or if you're a woman, have sex with only women. Follow those suggestions and you can dramatically cut down the numbers of new AIDS infections. End of subject.........
(But in 1969 who knew that? Jeez this guy is from left field on Mars--)
All good advice, but it is still not an explanation as to why this virus took such a toll on the gay community. When HIV first came on the scene just as many heterosexual people as gays were neglecting to use condoms and all they got were babies
(The people who created the virus created it as a race specific form of germ warfare--their scientific evidence that it would only kill Africans was faulty. It spread to gay men because they were going on--as they still do--those sex tours of the Caribbean)
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they just have to make sure to blame it on someone black, i remember first hearing it started from an african banging a monkey long time ago. just as stupid as that sounds i think the article may have just cut it's self 15 paragraphs short and say the same thing. aids started from the same place small pox started ... ask the native americans if that came from africa too. |
Cynique
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Only kill Africans??? What was this "man-made" virus? An aberration of cycle cell anemia? And why do "they" want to kill off Africans? I always take these conspiracy theories with a grain of salt. |
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I always heard that it was spread by a gay airline steward who led a very promiscuous life style facilitated by the transient nature of his job. |
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Only kill Africans??? What was this "man-made" virus? An aberration of cycle cell anemia? And why do "they" want to kill off Africans? I always take these conspiracy theories with a grain of salt.
(As the number of Africans increase, their demands on the world food supply do also. Additionally, they live on land containing many of the world's strategic minerals. They only need enough of them to live to help extract the minerals.
The people of the world's underdeveloped areas want to achieve the levels of prosperity that the U.S. has. There are not enough resources to allow this.
The rulers of the U.S. have, since the U.S. has become the sole superpower to maintain this status and prevent it by any means necessary.
The wars in the Persian gulf are as much about securing oil for ourselves as denying it for any possible challengers.
I have not made this up.
Visit the Project for a New American Century Website to check it out.
Back in the 70's Science Fiction fans were discussing the possibility of producing race specific biolgical weapons. Many of these people, such as the woman who wrote under the name James Tiptree Jr., were involved in U.S. Intelligence and weapons development.
We all thought it was a joke then. |
Cynique
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Africans couldn't be making too much of a demand on the world food supply or they wouldn't be starving. And I continue to be skeptical of the nebulous "they". I'm not buying it. Whose necks will the white man keep his foot on if he eliminates blacks? And Africans are no threat because they have no power. |
Chrishayden
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It would never work, you say? It makes no sense, you say?
You assume that the people who created the virus were sane.
By the way they know now that it will not work. |
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The whole theory of an African fucking a monkey back in the sixties and getting AIDS(or even an African being bitten by one) discredits the theory in my eyes. The very association of Africans with monkeys is just some old time, schoolyard racist bullshit. I have also noticed that a LOT of so-called AIDS deaths in Africa (and elsewhere) are not actually deaths from HIV but from tuberculosis, hepatitis, cholera, etc., etc.,....and that many of these people dying don't even have an HIV virus in them.
Many full-blown AIDS cases come without HIV at all. What's even more interesting is that passive recipients of anal sex often get infected and die as a result of internal ruptures, or periontitis(and semen's contact with a ruptured rectum makes it worse). Of course, nobody is really looking into this with a dispassionate eye. |
Schakspir
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BTW, why just Haitians, anyway? And why a Central African conveniently coming to Haiti? One would think that a Central African would go to America to seek his fortune, rather than the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Americans have been traditionally hostile to Haiti(and Africans), so the whole theory simply doesn't hold water. |
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"The researchers think an unknown single infected Haitian immigrant arrived in a large city like Miami or New York, and the virus circulated for years -- first in the U.S. population and then to other nations."
I'm sure it's just me. But how the hell can you trace a virus to an UNKNOWN person? I mean, if you don't even know WHO the person IS how can you scientifically justify declaring he(she) was carrying the AIDS virus?
Moreover, if you don't know who the person is how can you declare with any degree of certainty WTF country he(she) came from or what American city/state he(she) settled in?
This sh*t here is a CLASSIC example of why we Black foks need to start championing science (and logical thinking) education amongst our children.
Btw: If you've read anything about the pre-AIDS epidemic sexual exploits of gay American men, you'll probably understand WHY the disease spread so rapidly amongst them.
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Cynique
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Below is an earlier claim about the spread of HIV virus among gays.
"GAETAN DUGAS, a handsome French-Canadian airline steward, seems to have won the honor of being the first man to bring AIDS to the American continent, according to an impressively researched new book by Randy Shilts, himself a gay, entitled And the Band Played On (St. Martin's). There is much that is important about this book, involving as it does the etiology of the epidemic, the ideological coverups among gay spokesmen and organizations, and federal policy.
Shilts's research has been examined, and its results confirmed, by Professor Marcus Conant of the University of California at San Francisco, who, however, advises that if Dugas had not introduced the virus here, some other homosexual undoubtedly would have. Dugas, known to medical researchers as "Patient Zero,' picked up the disease in Europe through sexual contact with Africans. Traveling on his airline-employee privileges, he spread it here from coast to coast, through sexual practices that involved some 250 partners a year. Even after he was diagnosed in 1980 as communicating a possibly fatal sexual disease, he refused to restrict his sexual activity, claiming he could do what he wanted with his own body. Toward the end he showed his bath-house sexual partners his purplish Kaposi's sarcomas. "Gay cancer. Maybe you'll get it."
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Schakspir
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Yeah, sure. If a Haitian or a Congolese isn't good enough to pin AIDS on, then why not try a French fag? Sure. |
Demonique
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Funny, I heard HIV/AIDS was spread to the West by Westerners who slept with prostitutes in Africa and then went back to Europe/US/Australia/wherever and passed HIV onto to partners back home |
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Hey all...lurker now posting.
Check out eugenics.
Research On AIDS In Haiti
From Alan Cantwell
alancantwell@sbcglobal.net
11-10-7
Dear Marguerite Laurent and others...
Thank you for the information you sent me regarding the recent controversy among the Haitian-American community regarding the new proposed Haitian origin of "American AIDS." I am amazed to learn that the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network is considering legal action against researchers who allege that Haitians were responsible for the transfer of HIV from Africa and ultimately into the U.S. (http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_
files/details.asp?newsid=14074&title=Top%20Stories)
Of course, so much that passes for science surrounding the "origin" of AIDS is nonsense and racist and reeks of disinformation - all in an attempt to cover up the MAN-MADE origin of HIV/AIDS. I am glad the Haitian community is resisting this latest display of "science" in which Haiti is "blamed" for AIDS in the Western Hemisphere. First, "they" blamed the monkeys in Africa, then "promiscuous" Africans, then drugs, then gay sex, then anal sex- all in an attempt to hide the most obvious evidence that HIV was created by animal virus transfer experiments in the Special Virus Cancer Program of the 1970s - and then seeded into African blacks and American gays (and into Haitians in Haiti?) via covert contaminated vaccine programs. This has been the subject of two book I have written on the man-made origin of HIV/AIDS.
I wrote about the "Haitian connection" to AIDS in my 1988 book AIDS AND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH: AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC, (pp 124-136), published by Aries Rising Press, and still available from Amazon.com and elsewhere. Here are some quotes from the book, which may be of value to you and your group in terms of research- and what was said about the "Haitian AIDS connection" two decades ago.
Please post or forward to interested others.
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From 'AIDS and the Doctors of Death' Alan Cantwell MD, 1988
"In 1982, a year after the official onset of AIDS, the first reports of AIDS cases in Haitians living in New York City, Newark, and Miami, began to filter into the CDC.
The epidemiology of Haitian AIDS was complicated by the fact that AIDS cases were also discovered in Port-au-Prince, and in the suburb of Carrefour, an area noted for its houses of prostitution.
At the time, American epidemiologists claimed it was difficult to assess the true extent of Haitian AIDS. There was insinuation of an alleged "cover-up" by the Haitian government, headed by the dictatorial Duvalier family. Despite the eventual ouster of "baby Doc" Duvalier and his subsequent exile to France, it still appears difficult to determine the extent of AIDS in Haiti. It may be that American scientists do no want to publicize the true facts about AIDS in Haiti because the facts could conflict with the well-established African origin of AIDS.
The discovery of AIDS in Haiti, and in "high-risk" Haitian-Americans, quickly led to a severe crippling of the Haitian tourist trade. U.S. scientists heavily promoted the theory that AIDS was brought to America by affluent, young promiscuous gays from Manhattan, who regularly traveled to Port-au-Prince and Carrefours where it was cheap and easy to have sex with Haitian men. Early in the epidemic, epidemiologists emphasized that AIDS was a homosexual disease acquired by the practice of anal-genital sex. The public was repeatedly informed that the "gay plague" was brought to America by Manhattan gays sodomized in Haiti.
In his AMA interview (American World News, "An AIDS expert's grim message", December 5, 1986) , virologist Norbert Rapoza further detailed his elaborate theory on the spread of AIDS to America, "One theory of how AIDS migrated from Africa is that some Haitians used to work in Zaire (in Central Africa) and had returned by 1977, when an international conference of gays was held in Haiti, where the virus could have spread by sex or drugs or both and then have been taken back to New York and California". (Despite Rapoza's claim, there is no record of such a "gay" international conference in Haiti in 1977, or in any other year).
Many Haitians do not believe the American story that blames them for bringing AIDS to the Western Hemisphere. Their strongest argument is the fact that AIDS in Haiti started about the same time that AIDS started in New York City gays. In fact,
some Haitians use epidemiologic data to suggest that Manhattan gays brought the disease to Haiti!
The purple skin spots of Kaposi's sarcoma remain the unmistakable "mark" of AIDS. The first case of "fulminant" KS in a Haitian man was diagnosed in Port-au-Prince in June 1979, the same year the first gay cases were discovered in New York City. This case, along with 61 other Haitians who developed KS and/or other opportunistic infections between 1979-1982, was reported by physicians in Haiti in 1983.
The Haitian doctors searched the hospital records but could find only one previous Haitian case of KS who was diagnosed seven years earlier, in 1972. There was no record of any other Haitian case before that year. The new Haitian AIDS cases were young (median age of 32 years), mostly men (85%), and most patients died within six months. One-third of the ADS cases also had tuberculosis.
Fifteen percent of the men were bisexual. These bisexual men were considered the epidemiologic "link" between American and Haitian AIDS cases. According to Haitian doctors, some men "had had sexual relations with American homosexuals in New York and Miami."
The Haitian physicians emphasized "the first cases of KS and opportunistic infection in Haiti were recognized in 1978-1979, a period that coincides with the earliest reports of AIDS in the United States."
Jeffrey Vierira, et al, reported on ten of the earliest AIDS cases in Haitian men living in New York City, who were evaluated between January 1981 and July 1982. Vieira's group was surprised to find that none of the Haitians were gay or addicted to drugs. In New York City, what did heterosexual Haitians and homosexual men have in common? Unfortunately, nobody knew. But the CDC quickly declared that Haitian-Americans were at "high risk" for AIDS. The Haitians were a confusing "risk" group who belied the notion that AIDS was a disease of gays and druggers.
New and bizarre theories about Haitian AIDS continue to flourish in the most prestigious medical journals. One persistent story is that Haitians could have been exposed to the AIDS virus during the preparations of "sorcerer's poison" from the brains of dead people, or through the ingestion of "human blood in (voodoo) sacrificial worship." Such notions prompted William Greenfield to write a Letter to the Editor, which was published in JAMA, (October 24, 1986). The letter was fancifully titled "Night of the Living Dead II: Slow virus encephalopathies and AIDS: Do necromantic zombiists transmit HTLV-3/LAV during voodooistic rituals?"
Almost a decade after the first case of AIDS was discovered in Haiti, the origin of Haitian AIDS remains a mystery. However, no scientist believes the AIDS virus "originated" on the island because AIDS is not a problem in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispanola with Haiti.
it is now clear that most AIDS cases in Haiti are heterosexual. Some reports claim that 40% of the cases are women. In this respect, the epidemiology of AIDS in Haiti is more like AIDS on Africa.
If Manhattan gays did bring the AIDS virus into America from Haiti, it is not likely they would have been the exclusive recipients of a sexually-transmitted virus which spreads so easily between heterosexuals in Haiti.
In 1985 a highly authoritative textbook was published, entitled AIDS: Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention. The book was edited, in part, by Vincent DeVita, Director of the National Cancer Institute.
Two NCI epidemiologists, James Goedert and William Blattner, clarified some details of the Haitian AIDS story. They concluded:
1) There is no evidence that the AIDS virus originated in Haiti, not is it possible at this time to determine whether homosexual tourists introduced AIDS into Haiti, or whether they returned from Haiti with the AIDS virus.
2) The incidence of AIDS in Haitians who emigrated to the United States since 1978 is 40 times higher that those who emigrated before 1978.
3) The disease in Haiti is concentrated primarily in Port-au-Prince and Carrefour (the latter area "reportedly being a center of male and female prostitution").
4) As many as one-third of the Haitian men with AIDS may be bisexual or "serve as prostitutes for American tourists."
5) At least one-quarter of Haitian cases are women.
6) There is no evidence that voodoo practices or ingestion of human blood contribute to the risk of AIDS.
Goedert and Blattner admitted "a complete explanation of the AIDS epidemic may never be possible." They reiterated that the key to AIDS may be the discovery of new AIDS-like viruses in Africa. In 1986, Biggar contradicted this view by presenting epidemiologic data which cast serious doubt on the African origin of AIDS.
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These new details on Haitian AIDS renewed my interest in the underground theory which accuses the CIA of conducting secret biological experiments on male and female prostitutes in Carrefour. Proponents of this theory insist that prostitutes were deliberately injected with viruses during routine injections of antibiotics for sexually-transmitted diseases. The theory seems so bizarre, and yet there are statistical and epidemiologic peculiarities of Haitian AIDS that could be compatible with covert human experimentation.
In this regard, the CIA has a long history of secret drug experiments on unwilling and unsuspecting American civilians. In some of these experiments which have recently come to light, victims were lured to hotel rooms for sexual encounters with prostitutes, and then subsequently drugged and monitored by CIA agents. These government-sponsored experiments which took place in New York, San Francisco, and other cities, are chronicled in A Higher Form of Killing. Although most Americans are unaware of these intolerable activities by government agencies, the questionable ethics of the CIA has become known to the public as a result of the recent Congressional Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987.
Something obviously happened in Haiti around the late 1970s to account for the outbreak of AIDS. Surprisingly, no epidemiologist has ever provided a satisfactory theory to explain why Haitians entering the U.S. after 1978 were forty times as likely to get AIDS. These peculiar statistics of Haitian AIDS are rarely mentioned in the scientific literature. Instead, many AIDS experts, (apparently unaware of the "official" epidemiologic stand on the Haitian issue in DeVita's AIDS book), continue to blame gays from bringing AIDS to America.
Undoubtedly, world-traveling heterosexuals must have partaken of the AIDS virus during visits to the famed brothels of Carrefour and Port-au-Prince. Yet it is rare to discover an AIDS case in the scientific literature that was "picked up" in Haiti and carried to other parts of the world. Unbelievably, only New York City gays were blamed for spreading AIDS.
If AIDS was imported to Haiti from Africa, it is unlikely the epidemic would have broken out in Port-au-Prince and in Manhattan during the same time period (around 1979). If Haitian men were spreaders of the AIDS virus, it would seem reasonable to expect that sexually-active Haitians traveling to New York and Miami would also infect other Haitians living in America. If that were the case, it would seem likely that Haitian-Americans would be the first group to get AIDS in America. But the facts show that cases of AIDS in Haitians living in America were discovered in 1982, three years after the first homosexual cases were discovered in 1979 in New York City.
Another peculiar discrepancy about AIDS is why Haitians were the only nationals in the world who brought AIDS back from Africa. In view of what we now know about the epidemiology and sexual transmission of the AIDS virus, it would seem a biologic impossibility for the Haitians to have accomplished this feat.
Theories on the Haitian AIDS connection continue to flourish in the media. According to the Los Angeles Times ("Male prostitution and the heterosexual community", August 9, 1987), new data suggest that New York City gays brought the AIDS virus to Haiti! This is the new "official" story purported by Jean Pape, a Haitian-born physician "who has been researching AIDS in his hometown of Port-au-Prince since 1982."
In the same article, Ronald St. John of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington also blamed homosexual men for spreading AIDS south of the American border. In his view, "In one country after another, the first case reported was always, always, some local who had traveled to the U.S. and was gay."
Neither Pape nor St. John provided a story to explain how an African AIDS virus could have initially seeded itself exclusively in young gay men living on the island of Manhattan,
No doubt, experts will continue to provide "official" and unofficial theories about Haitian AIDS. It is possible that some day these stories will be among the biggest "fairy tales" ever reported in the medical literature.
Alan Cantwell M.D.
alancantwell@sbcglobal.net
http://www.ariesrisingpress.com
author of, THE CANCER MICROBE
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Another 'coincidental' story is that hiv/aids started to appear in areas with Gay communities such as San Francisco and N.Y.City. Before the outbreaks, a vaccine campaign was established to encourage Gays to get immunized with hep a and hep b vaccines due to their sexual practices and having more than one partner.I don't trust this govt. at all.
Remember the Tuskegee experiments on Black men?
Sterilization of women of color without consent or knowledge?
What's up with the vaccines?
We'd better be paying attention to what's really going on this country and world and doing something than being concerned about trivial bs that the general media dishes up with slop. |
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