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Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by WolfofWar
I noticed a few inaccuracies in some of the comments here.
First let it be noted that HIV was NOT found in chimpanzees, ever. Since its HUMAN Immunodeficiency Virus. The chimpanzees carry SIV, or Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. It should be noted that SIV is non-transferable between species. They're isolated solely to each individual species. Infact, the mutations of SIV to HIV is just a commonly accepted hypothesis with no real evidence in it's favor. There never has been a case of HIV being FOUND in a monkey in order to proove that the virus did infact mutate.
I notice a few inaccuracies in your comments...
Over 120 diseases are shared between human and animals and resent ones that have mutated to have jumped from animals to humans are measles, influenza A, Ebola, SARS, dengue, and HIV.
Yes in Chimps it is SIV but the jump needs a mutated form and HIV has mutated very well, and continues to. The fact that Chimps got their SIV from two other breeds of monkeys shows how well this virus can evolve to other species. Here is an article on HIV being at least 75 years old in humans.
www.pbs.org...
Originally posted by Soulshock
''God'' is just a investion to control the people, just like religion.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by Soulshock
Do you believe the HIV was created as a population control? or just as some experiment?
Some people claim the medicine against HIV just makes the virus worse and spread and that the government has a medicine anti-hiv but does not give it to the public because of the income $$ that anti-hiv drugs generate.
What is your opinion?
They invented the common cold too. Ever notice that a virus is not natural. They still do not know if it is animal, mineral or vegetable. These viruses are so alien that they can only be manmade.
How else do the pharmaceutical companies rake in the profits? The cost of one year supply of HIV meds is more than $1000 per month and since they killed off a bunch of people for the hype they now release meds that doesn’t cure it, but just contains it for your life time. Let’s see.. a million dollars spent for these drugs over the ones life time is a very nice renewable income source, and something along the lines of a flu shots (another renewable income source for something they made, but do not want to cure) that could have a delayed HIV reaction to hit about the time a person is sexually active…YES blame it on the sex!
The good news is they will make sure you live 100 plus years for you are a very valuable income sourse for them and they wouldn’t want that to stop anytime soon.
[edit on 7-9-2007 by Xtrozero]
Originally posted by Conspiriology
Appreciated the link to the PBS feature but ,, ya know LOL I can't find ANYTHING in it or any other "reputable" place to substantiate an evil scientist theory for profit. Realizing the HUGE amounts of money needed to make such meds with research is justification for charging huge sums of money for an ROI wouldn't you say? You say it is alien? compared to what? You show me a fast mutating virus found in nature that one couldn't say is out of this world and Ill show you someone who thinks anything they don't understand must have an evil greedy scientist creating it.
Originally posted by Musky
If you have time or are so inclined, when you make your next post could you include a couple brief comments regarding how those that work in the field view Hooper's theory?
I've been to his website and know he continues to push the idea that a polio vaccine is responsible, but I don't believe there are many who support him.
Originally posted by Rasputin13
I'd just like to read a thread on here once where religion is mentioned and a dozen people don't respond by calling Christianity a "fairy tale" and equating Jesus Christ to Santa Claus. Just because one moron says that HIV is a punishment from God to the gay community does not mean that all Christians believe that. It doesn't even mean that any measureable number of Christians, at least in this country, believe it. You shouldn't lump the radicle fringe elements of Christianity in with the rest of us, just as one shouldn't condemn all of Islam over the actions of terrorists.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
I can't for it is my theory on how anyone can make up a story anytime they want.
Origin of HIV
Where did HIV originate? First, HIV-2 is very closely related to SIV, the simian immune virus, found in sooty mangabeys. Baboons can be infected with HIV-1 and they can also suffer from a version of SIV. At the 6th American Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held in Chicago from January 31-February 4, 1999, one of the keynote papers delivered by Beatrice Hahn on the first day presented evidence that HIV-1 is likely to have originated in West African chimpanzees of the species Pan troglodytes troglodytes. HIV could have been transferred from monkeys because they have long been kept as pets and used for food. When hunting monkeys it is not unusual for both the hunter and the hunted to exchange blood during capture. Currently there is a large market in "bush meat" obtained from monkeys. This does not bode well because there may well be continuing transfer of the disease from monkeys to humans.
The earliest fully documented case of HIV dates back to 1959. A Congolese man's blood sample from a medical study was preserved, found, and then analyzed in 1998. It was verified that he had been HIV+. Other suspected, but unverified because of the lack of either blood or tissue samples, cases date back as early as 1934. On February 1, 2000, M. Korber, et al. reported the results of a phylogenetic statistical analysis of the evolution of the retroviral genome of HIV using complex mathematical models allowing for both constant and variable rates of evolution. Her group's analysis required the use of supercomputers to backtrack the evolution to its source from monkeys. The most reliable time of origin in humans is somewhere around 1930 (a 95% confidence interval extends from 1910 to 1950). Several naysayers have claimed that the disease originated from the use of African green monkey kidneys to cultivate poliovirus in the late 1950's and early 1960's. This analysis finds that argument to be a very low probability event, hence quite unlikely.
The first recorded cases in the U.S. occurred in New York City in 1952, 1959, and 1979. The cases from the 1950s were both males with PCP and other unusual infections. The first reported cases were those in the June 5, 1981 MMWR mentioned earlier. The watershed event that brought the disease into full view of the public eye was the announcement that the (thought to be very macho) film star Rock Hudson had the disease. (Even after he had been diagnosed with AIDS, he continued cruising the gay bars and did not notify any of his sexual partners of his HIV status.)
These results, together with the observation that the natural range of P. t. troglodytes coincides uniquely with areas of HIV-1 group M, N and O endemicity, indicate that P. t. troglodytes is the primary reservoir for HIV-1 and has been the source of at least three independent introductions of SIVcpz into the human population.
Originally posted by Soulshock
Do you believe the HIV was created as a population control? or just as some experiment?
Some people claim the medicine against HIV just makes the virus worse and spread and that the government has a medicine anti-hiv but does not give it to the public because of the income $$ that anti-hiv drugs generate.
What is your opinion?
Originally posted by Conspiriology
Originally posted by Xtrozero
I can't for it is my theory on how anyone can make up a story anytime they want.
Well I got to hand it to you,, it is people like you that keep people like me on the damn wheel spinning. Just what kind of kick out of that you get I'll never know but what ever floats your boat I guess.
I get just as frustrated as the guy who says whenever someone uses the word GOD it makes him want to bite off a piece of his arse. O MY GOD! I think I just figured out what that kick is you get out of this LOL.
That would be a good label for that third category Atmosphere people LOL
Warm Regards
Originally posted by chickeneater
I am not a religious fanatic, until I see HIV epidemic. It's so widespread amongst homosexuals and we still have no cure, not even a vaccine, it's God's way of signalling His disapproval of this behaviour. It's a punishment of the deviation of what human supposed to do.
Originally posted by Conspiriology
variant strains of HIV has been discovered in the bodies found entombed in sarcophagus's in Egypt.
Originally posted by Rilence
Originally posted by Conspiriology
variant strains of HIV has been discovered in the bodies found entombed in sarcophagus's in Egypt.
Interesting comment there...A source or two perhaps to add some weight ?
Thanks