― aishath riznaa raashid, Monday, 16 August 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Monday, 16 August 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Monday, 16 August 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Brian Jones, Monday, 16 August 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Wow, for once I looked up something in an encyclopedia instead of google it! Wooo, I will turn back time, yet! Luddites to the rescue etc.I'm better at doing other people's homework than I ever was at my own.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 16 August 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)
PS: I have no sense of humor.
― djdee2005, Monday, 16 August 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Studies suggest that the virus spread initially in West Africa, but it is possible that there were several separate initial sources, corresponding to the different strains of HIV (HIV-1 and HIV-2). The earliest human fluid sample known to contain HIV was taken in 1959 from a British sailor, who apparently contracted it in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Other early samples include one from an American male who died in 1969, and a Norwegian sailor in 1976. It is believed that the virus was spread via sexual activity, possibly including with prostitutes, in Africa's rapidly growing urban areas. As unwittingly infected people traveled the virus spread from one city to another, and air travelers carried the virus to other continents.
Recently, evidence has grown that AIDS may have been introduced by the United Nations oral polio vaccination program in Africa during the late 1950s. The OPV AIDS hypothesis argues that the use of monkey and chimpanzee organs to prepare vaccines provides a possible mechanism for the introduction of SIV into humans, particularly considering that the vaccines were administered to a million people, many of them young infants with weak immune systems. Many scientists dispute this theory, arguing that is unlikely, but it has yet to be disproven.
― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)
But, are there any good songs that deal with the subject?
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)