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Old 02-08-2007, 11:14 AM  
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AIDS is not a "natural" virus. It was man-made in the 1950's, by scientists testing vaccinations (for polio I believe) in monkeys. This vaccination, derived from monkeys, was given to people in Africa. From there, it mutated into a retrovirus and the rest is history.

Supposedly, the first guy (patient zero) to ever develop AIDS, was a homosexual who spread it like crazy in the 1980's, but the disease actually existed decades before that in Africa.
A retrovirus isn't something that wash fashionable 20 years ago - you can't be a normal virus, using DNA to replicate and suddenly 'mutate' into a virus that uses a whole different mechanism and nucleic acid to replicate...
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