AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old 316
ChazeFroy writes "A new study estimates that the AIDS virus, HIV, started to circulate in the human population between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908. This is much earlier than the previously-held estimate of 1930. 'The new result is "not a monumental shift, but it means the virus was circulating under our radar even longer than we knew," says Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona, an author of the new work.' The article also speculates that HIV first began to spread in Kinshasa, Congo."
Re:FIST SPORT (Score:4, Funny)
Truly, truly insightful.
My only regret is that I have no mod points left.
Insert Apple joke here... (Score:3, Funny)
The Apple bumper sticker included with your Apple purchase can also double as an AIDS awareness sticker...
Re:Insert Apple joke here... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? (Score:5, Funny)
davidwr's disease!
Also known as /.itis (Score:4, Funny)
I walked right into that one.
First post now thought to be dated 18:18PM (Score:3, Funny)
While First Post was previously estimated to be from 1-October-2008 18:31, new analysis shows it was actually dates back to 1-October-2008 18:18.
Space born virus? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Also known as /.itis (Score:5, Funny)
I walked right into that one.
Don't do that! That's how you get davidwr's disease!
Re:FIST SPORT (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? (Score:5, Funny)
the GPL
1908 also was the last time that the cubs won it a (Score:4, Funny)
1908 also was the last time that the cubs won it all.
Happy birthday! (Score:5, Funny)
Happy 100th birthday, HIV!
Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm stocking up on gas masks, spam, and guns, but after hearing that I'm also going to be stocking up on orange juice. Figure that'll be good for if I catch it.
Pinky: Ahoy Brain. We're almost out of spam, but there's a bunch of gelatine in here with bits of spam stuck to it. Do you want any?
Brain: [vomiting]
Pinky: Right, I'll save you some then. Zort!
Re:Wait, read much? (Score:2, Funny)
I am intrigued by your ideas and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
So you think the government made AIDS in the 70s? (Score:4, Funny)
Did they make it in Area 51, where the moon landings were staged? It makes sense!
Only one small problem with your theory: How do the Illuminati fit in with this, and what about Kennedy? Until you resolve these two gaps in your theory, I'm afraid I won't be able to give it my full credence.
Re:Weird (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? (Score:4, Funny)
What diseases that crossed the species barrier in the last 30 years will we be talking about in 2078?
None. We'll all be dead from the Captain Trips by then.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:1, Funny)
Actually, it was the Gay Nigger Association of America.
Why they would want to wipe out gays and black people, I do not know.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm skeptical. How could a disease with such a long incubation period not be recognized for over a century? It's not like needles or anal sex were invented in 1965. And then in a period of a few years become a worldwide epidemic? Yeah, I RTFA but I'm not buying the "city" hypothesis; it's not like people in the country don't have anal sex.
Thank you Slashdot non-expert for debunking the whole story thanks to wild guesses about the rate of propagation of STDs in the Congolese countryside!
Re:Immunity reason for aging (Score:2, Funny)
How funny that an add for "The Flexible Shaft Ratcheting Screwdriver" from ThinkGeek shows up, in an HIV/AIDS thread, and it's tag line is "More flexible screwing".
Har...
AIDS is not a virus. It's the *effect* of a fungus (Score:0, Funny)
Haven't you noticed that people who are extremely sexually active have depressed immune systems? I have friends that have had no sexual contact with anyone but theirselves, and have detracted to a flavor of AIDS that they remedied with certain herbs ministered over 2 months. The reason why we are seeing the 1970's as the arrival dates of the major outbreaks of disease is because that is when the manipulation of nutrition, water, and medicine begain pursuant to the United Nations Agenda 21 which states that the initial terms of entry of the United States into the Pan American Union facilitated through the Trans-Texas Trade Corridor is for a 70% reduction in population with exemption to native tribes on the continents. Now, if there were any continental United Statesmen still alive in their movements of home rule, then they would be under the exemption clause because they are considered just as indian as the indians outside the United States of America in admiralty acknowledged in USCode Title 27 Section 3002, 15(b) "United States means...a federal corporation." The majority of fungus is not a symbiotic relationship to a man, though there are exceptions such as Jesus the Christ and Lucifer the Shatan.
Every death releases a bond in admiralty for that person instrumentalized by the corporate UNITED STATES; for about USD 45 million, known as the measured potential currency to be generated and moved indirectly by profitable product, however only a fraction of that is payed to that artificial person as the dividend to the father corporation United States. Anyone brought into court for those proceedings are covered under "Trust 72", which so-far has manipulated the people to become that artificial person in trust, even so-far as manifesting the disabilities and death from releasing the bond.
Of'course, the fungus gets exported to Africka so the home rule over there can glean its population from any mental awakening, and making Liberia a fit example of freedom and liberty so as to encourage slavery and oppression.
Re:What new diseases have crossed over recently? (Score:1, Funny)
OOXML
Re:AIDS is not a virus. It's the *effect* of a fun (Score:1, Funny)
I like your Time Cube page better.
Re:AIDS is not a virus. It's the *effect* of a fun (Score:3, Funny)
I too blame it on a conspiracy that perverted our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual.
By the way, General Ripper, I am elated to see that you are alive and well. And I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.