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Old 11-23-2003, 09:28 PM
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Homosexuality and The Spread of AIDS


To link HIV or AIDS with homosexuality is to make homosexuals livid. This is very curious given the facts we consider in this section. For starters, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, one of the names given to this disease was Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome (GRIDS). 1 We need not examine the nature of AIDS, but it suffices to say that AIDS equals death.

The Origin of HIV

HIV-infection has been documented in Zaire since 1959. 2 HIV originated from its equivalent in chimpanzees, SIVcpz (simian immunodeficiency virus). SIV transfer from chimpanzees and sooty mangabey monkeys to humans has been documented on at least 7 occasions, and laboratory experiments have revealed the ease with which various SIV strains can infect and replicate within some cells in human blood. 3 SIV strains in two monkey species that are butchered and eaten by chimpanzees, hybridized to form SIVcpz. 4 SIVcpz mutated into HIV, and its transfer to humans was most likely a result of the sub-Saharan African practice of butchering and eating chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. 4-6 This most likely occurred in Central Africa since it has been shown that SIVcpz infections are absent in West African chimpanzees but present in Central African chimpanzees. 7

In the First-World, AIDS was first diagnosed among American white homosexual men in the early 1980s, but retrospective studies have documented HIV and AIDS among Haitian immigrants to the U.S. and Americans associated with them in the late 1970s. 8 HIV appears to have entered the U.S. around the late 1960s, 8 and was then primarily spread by homosexuals throughout the U.S. and Europe. In a survey on AIDS conducted in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (FDR), Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K., in 1983, the most important contributors to the AIDS epidemic in Europe were male homosexuals (58% of all cases, and likely contracted from the U.S.A., Europe, and Haiti), followed by individuals from Central Africa (26%), and whites who had sex with natives from Central Africa (3%); drug abuse was not a risk factor. 9 Click here to learn about the bathhouse phenomenon.


References

1. Shilts R. And the band played on. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1987.

2. D'Amelio R. Epidemiology of AIDS. Revue Int Des Services De Sante Des Forces Armees 1990;63(7-9):216-22.

3. Grimm TA, Beer BE, Hirsch VM, et al. Simian immunodeficiency viruses from multiple lineages infect human macrophages: implications for cross-species transmission. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2003;32(4):362-9.

4. Bailes E, Gao F, Bibollet-Ruche F, et al. Hybrid origin of SIV in chimpanzees. Science 2003;300(5626):1713.

5. http://bushmeat.net/.

6. http://www.janegoodall.org/.

7. Prince AM, Brotman B, Lee DH, et al. Lack of evidence for HIV type 1-related SIVcpz infection in captive and wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in West Africa. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2002;18(9):657-60.

8. Robbins KE, Lemey P, Pybus OG, et al. U.S. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 epidemic: date of origin, population history, and characterization of early strains. J Virol 2003;77(11):6359-66.

9. Glauser MP, Francioli P. Clinical and epidemiological survey of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Europe. Eur J Clin Microbiol 1984;3(1):55-8.

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