The origin of AIDS revealed? First person ever infected with HIV was a starving World War One soldier who caught the virus in Cameroon while hunting chimps, expert claims
In the acclaimed first edition of his book 'Origin of AIDS', published in 2011, Dr Pepin concluded HIV likely infected a hunter in Cameroon at the start of the 20th century, before spreading to Léopoldville, now known as Kinshasa in the Congo.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9202531/First-HIV-case-soldier-World-War-One-caught-virus-hunting-chimps.html
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Surely worth a quick read. Professor Jacques Pepin has some substantial evidences that point to Dutch soldiers, cut off from supply lines, going into neighboring Cameroon to hunt for monkeys.
Not proof, perhaps, but, the most plausible scenario I have seen.
@earl-of-trumps saidWhat were Dutch soldiers doing over there in WW1. And which supply lines?
The origin of AIDS revealed? First person ever infected with HIV was a starving World War One soldier who caught the virus in Cameroon while hunting chimps, expert claims
[i]In the acclaimed first edition of his book 'Origin of AIDS', published in 2011, Dr Pepin concluded HIV likely infected a hunter in Cameroon at the start of the 20th century, before spread ...[text shortened]... Cameroon to hunt for monkeys.
Not proof, perhaps, but, the most plausible scenario I have seen.
Sounds mad to me.
@shavixmir saidEarl's synopsis is wrong; the soldiers weren't "Dutch" (the Netherlands was neutral in WWI) but supposedly part of a joint French, British and Belgian invasion force.
What were Dutch soldiers doing over there in WW1. And which supply lines?
Sounds mad to me.
@no1marauder saidEarl was wrong???
Earl's synopsis is wrong; the soldiers weren't "Dutch" (the Netherlands was neutral in WWI) but supposedly part of a joint French, British and Belgian invasion force.
Who’d a thunk it?
@divegeester
One theory has it they did not have sex, just consumed the monkeys which had the Aids virus and that was passed from monkeys to humans.
@shavixmir saidDid you read it? It was WWI. Dutch went in to attack German strongholds in Africa.
What were Dutch soldiers doing over there in WW1. And which supply lines?
Sounds mad to me.
Supply lines (shipping) were cut off.
@sonhouse saidclose.
@divegeester
One theory has it they did not have sex, just consumed the monkeys which had the Aids virus and that was passed from monkeys to humans.
the monkeys had SIV (simian), which mutated into HIV (human) upon human handling (consumption?)
@no1marauder saidmy short-term memory sucks since getting COVID, and creeping old age does not help
Earl's synopsis is wrong; the soldiers weren't "Dutch" (the Netherlands was neutral in WWI) but supposedly part of a joint French, British and Belgian invasion force.
@earl-of-trumps saidI read a similar article somewhere (can't remember now where, yup, old age), which proposed the same hypothesis, that the virus jumped species from monkeys to humans. I believe the virus is still widespread among the monkey population.
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the monkeys had SIV (simian), which mutated into HIV (human) upon human handling (consumption?)
COVID from bats. Jakob-Kreuzfeld from cows. Just serves to remind us we're part of nature, not above it.
@earl-of-trumps saidYou got COVID?!
my short-term memory sucks since getting COVID, and creeping old age does not help
@earl-of-trumps saidThe article claims it was caused by butchering the animal by a soldier with an open wound.
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the monkeys had SIV (simian), which mutated into HIV (human) upon human handling (consumption?)
@earl-of-trumps saidNo they didn’t.
Did you read it? It was WWI. Dutch went in to attack German strongholds in Africa.
Supply lines (shipping) were cut off.