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FALSE STATEMENT 1: We understand everything aboutAIDS. No scientific or medical entity has ever made the above claim. I challenge Frederick to show us evidence to support the above assertion. We know its origins and how it first came about. This statement is an exaggeration. We do know the origin of AIDS in the sense that it is most definitely caused by the HIV virus, which is known to be a newly emerged retroviral species. We also know that the first cases of AIDS were recognized in the US in 1981, and symptoms resembling those of full-blown AIDS were noted retrospectively in some individuals in the US, Sweden, Tanzania and Haiti as early as 1978. HIV has been isolated from the blood sample of a man belonging to the Bantu tribe in Belgian Congo, who died in 1959. Genetic tests of his virus have revealed that it could not have originated more than a few years before 1959. However, we do not know exactly how the virus originated, and how it mutated and jumped from lower primates such as chimpanzees into humans. WE DO KNOW how it first came about. Just like chickens have an ever present salomila bacteria in them. Monkey family have AIDS virus in their body. The Belgians - when they were experimenting on the Apes, and sending samples of internal organs to Belgium for disection etc, the virus got in contact with humans. Joe.
