Longtime Washington Post journalist Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly epidemic and the best ways to fight it today.
Recent genetic discoveries have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried a nearly identical virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans.
During the Scramble for Africa near the turn of the twentieth century, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here, during the age of european conquest, that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world.
http://tinderboxbook.com/

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0 · Wack 2Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Literally to hell. To hell with them and their bullshit. HIV is govt. manufactured.
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1 · Wack Feelings Nosign 1Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Reverend Wright has got you fools convinced. I guess the Government also manufactured some folks promiscuous tendencies?
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-3 · 2Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Promiscuity didn't have any thing to do with it really, chimpanzees carried a nearly identical virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans according to these writers, I agree somwhat with the theory but regardless of the fact people didn't just start being promiscuous.
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·What are you gonna claim next, that homosexuality hasn't perpetuated the spread of Aids - those living the 'down low' life style aren't spreading the disease. FYI those in monogamous relationships don't have high rates of STDs.
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2 · Wack Feelings Nosign 2Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Who are the other africans
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Dude reverend Wright? Fuck reverend Wright, I dont even go to church.
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0 · Wack 1Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·yes, surely THAT has as much support as this article's theory... oh, wait, it doesn't. but did you actually read the article?
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1 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign 1Ether GOAT LOL ·dont flatter yourself cracca
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0 · Wack 1Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·North africans
the ones above the sahara, which is why the ones below the sahara are called sub saharan
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1 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign 1Ether GOAT LOL ·I'm not claiming that it didn't perpetuate the spread, thats almost irrelevent because like I said people didn't just start living like this, if it was systematically planned or just one of those things that happend due to colonialism is something I wont say I know.
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·The only thing I understand about your POV is the lack of responsibility & putting the blame where it belongs. Seriously at this point in time it's in the human being court - & folks can either accept that reality or continue to search for theories about who what or where it originated - is the blame gonna make it go away? or improve the lives of those who suffer?
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Only Reverend Wright knows & hes convinced others that Uncle Sugar is the real culprit. Isn't TOO! much sugar bad for you?
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·ah thats just my thing on here, im surprised in your infinite knowledge you did not know this. but hey you learn something new every day
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0 · Wack 1Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·It's not lol
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·But it's also very believable that somebody did fuck a monkey. Cause these monkey's look ALOT like humans. Shit kinda freaks me out. Like look into a monkey's eyes and you can see it has some type of soul. Shit's cray.
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