Posted on 10/29/2007 8:04:41 PM PDT by blam
“It sounds like the liberals are trying to re-write history again,”
I agree.
On the rear end of a Hudson.
Voodoo curse..
I read a similar article, but it spoke of tetrodotoxin poisoning from a fish, what the Japanese call Fugu.
But AIDS would fit the bill over a long time frame.
that is sadly funny
Ping for later.
Ping for later.
"Shilts concentrates on a few people who were central to the AIDS epidemic. One such person was a Quebecker Airline Steward by the name of Gaetan Dugas, the so-called Patient Zero. Dugas was not the first person to be infected with AIDS (or detected as such). But Dugas was seen as the reason why AIDS was able to spread like wildfire across countries and continents. Calling Dugas promiscuous is an understatement. It is said that he would indulge in several thousand partners from the late 1970s until 1984. When his condition became diagnosed as GRID (Gay Related Immuodeficiency Disease) or more popularly known then as "Gay Cancer" (as AIDS was known as before it became obvious that it was not just a gay disease), Dugas continued to sleep with random partners. He would even visit clubs and after finishing his interludes, would turn the lights up and boast he had passed the cancer onto his partner, ghoulishly exposing his Kaposi Sarcoma lesions and his gaunt face and body. Dugas would eventually become an outcast in the gay community, moving back to Canada where he continued his promiscuity there."
A similar but different view, this article I saw on Drudge mentions a single infected person from Haiti as being the vector into the USA.
He's only known because of the Shilts book.
There were hundreds of men (at least) just like him.
In a quick search I hit 21 'AIDS indicators' in addition to Kaposi's Sarcoma - which itself is not limited only to AIDS/HIV sufferers but appears to have been limited to certain ethnicities not associated with the Caribbean prior to the time frame you indicated.
Seems to me that the immune deficiency probably existed before the "new" cancer arrived to become its hallmark?
It is pathetically ironic that there is on Broadway a revival of Hot-l Baltimore, a 'comedy' from the seventies that is set in a gay men's bath house.
David Livingstone, and successor generations of British colonial doctors, were superb observers. Their 130-year old drawings of various tropical maladies are still used for instruction and diagnosis - that's how good they were, and are.
If AIDS existed in Africa in the colonial period, it would have been well-known.
1969 is an interesting year to declare the start of AIDS for this reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
ooooh, someone had to say it, glad it wasn’t me
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