AIDS ancestry traced to chimps.

[Guest guest]

An HIV trail from the wild AIDS ancestry traced to chimps http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/26/stories/2006052601192000.htm WASHINGTON: Twenty-five years after the first cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, emerged, scientists have confirmed that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Solving the mystery of HIV's ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh faeces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples. Before that, it took seven years just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting endangered species. The tools Until now, "no one was able to look. No one had the tools," said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She led the team of international researchers that reported this in Friday's edition of Science. "We're 25 years into this pandemic," Dr. Hahn said. "We don't have a cure. We don't have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those." Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus,

called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that populates mostly West Africa. It was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man. Dr. Hahn's team tested chimp faeces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon. Chimps tend to form geographically distinct communities. By genetically analysing the faeces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all. Every single infected chimp had a common base genetic pattern that

indicated a common ancestor, Dr. Hahn said. There are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let Hahn identify chimp communities near Cameroon's Sanaga river whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes. "The genetic similarity was striking," Dr. Hahn said. The first one The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed. Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That

person passed it to someone else. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Jagannath) The Sanaga long has been a commercial waterway, for transporting hardwood, ivory and other items to more urban areas. Eventually, someone infected made it to Kinshasa. — AP "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

Sneak preview the all-new .com. It's not radically different. Just radically better.

[Guest guest]

There is a lot of ambiguity about HIV and every time the Americans come out with a new theory, overwritten later by another.

Twentyfive years ago the new incurable virus disease was noticed among the Gay-s or Homosexuals, legally permitted in U.S. And how it came up nobody has still explained and attempt to put the blame on Africans and then now Chimpanzees!!

 

We all know that Gays have unnatural sex and use of drugs too are common in these groups. Such unnatural sex and infections with the surrounding matter resulted in several ailments, attempted to be suppressed by the spectrum of antibiotics.

 

We also know that living organisms constantly exposed to inimical environment of antibiotics and surviving them, develop an immunity and are resistant to such antibiotics until a more powerful one is disovered and used.

 

In HIV, such virus resistant to any antibiotic by muation, survived an proliferated, first among Gays, then through free sex trade and spread around the World in course of time through prostitutes and infected males.

 

US, which was responsible for the creation of HIV has been attempting to transfer the onus on some other Country and groups and African tribals and apes have become convenient scapegoats!!

 

 

 

On 5/26/06, Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote:

 

 

An HIV trail from the wild

 

 

 

 

AIDS ancestry traced to chimps

http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/26/stories/2006052601192000.htm

 

WASHINGTON: Twenty-five years after the first cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, emerged, scientists have confirmed that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Solving the mystery of HIV's ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh faeces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples. Before that, it took seven years just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting endangered species. The tools

Until now, " no one was able to look. No one had the tools, " said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She led the team of international researchers that reported this in Friday's edition of Science.

" We're 25 years into this pandemic, " Dr. Hahn said. " We don't have a cure. We don't have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those. " Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that populates mostly West Africa. It was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man. Dr. Hahn's team tested chimp faeces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon. Chimps tend to form geographically distinct communities. By genetically analysing the faeces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all. Every single infected chimp had a common base genetic pattern that indicated a common ancestor, Dr. Hahn said. There are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let Hahn identify chimp communities near Cameroon's Sanaga river whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes. " The genetic similarity was striking, " Dr. Hahn said. The first one

The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed. Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Jagannath) The Sanaga long has been a commercial waterway, for transporting hardwood, ivory and other items to more urban areas. Eventually, someone infected made it to Kinshasa. — AP

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

Sneak preview the all-new .com. It's not radically different. Just radically better.

 

[Guest guest]

Have some reservations about that!

In the late 60,s they did some backtracking and found

that some tissue samples of sailors , from the mid

50,s had been filed as TB --- but they showed a

remarkable semblance to AIDS:

 

I have always felt that AIDS was a variety of TB ---

but you dont get a Noble Prize for that.

 

Certainly all the early tests simply said that " AIDS

has been here " without identifying the creator of the

condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Rubbish ---

 

Aids was started in the USA by the constant treatment

of homosexuals who had up to 1200 sexual partners a

year .

 

Not surprisingly they went round to the orthodox Doc

and got a course of ANTIBIOTICS!

 

They then plunged back into the sex scene and got

another dose of clap which was ten " " cured " " by

antibiotics!. Again the immune system was degraded!.

 

Multiply this by the whole homo sex scene at 1200

patners a year and you have an epidemic of AIDS

 

WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE ORTHODOX MEDICAL

ESTALISHMENT!!!

 

As the use of ANTIBIOTICS gradually degrade the immune

system it is unlikely that AIDS will EVER be in

retreat. WE ARE PROPAGATING IT!

 

 

Aids pandemic spreading to every corner of globe, says

UN

· 65 million people have been infected worldwide

· Countries' response is 'nowhere near adequate'

Wednesday May 31, 2006

 

Twenty five years after the first Aids cases were

reported, there is no sign of a halt to the pandemic

which is likely to spread to every corner of the

globe, the head of the United Nations' Aids agency has

said.

Peter Piot was speaking as UNAids released a report

which declares that the world's response to the

disease that has infected about 65 million people and

killed 25 million has been nowhere near adequate.

Five years after a special UN session pledged its

commitment to halting the Aids pandemic, only a few

countries have met the targets laid down.

" I think we will see a further globalisation of the

epidemic spreading to every single corner of the

planet, " said Dr Piot. " It won't go away one fine day,

and then we wake up and say, 'Oh, Aids is gone'. I

think we have to start thinking about looking at the

next generations. There's an increasing diversity in

how the epidemic looks. "

India has the largest number of people living with the

virus. With 5.7m infections, it has overtaken South

Africa's total of 5.5m. But the epidemic is still at

its worst in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of the

world's HIV-infected children live.

One in three pregnant women in South Africa tested

HIV-positive in public antenatal clinics in 2004.

" I think in Africa, it is only comparable in

demographic terms to the slave trade regarding the

impact it has had on the population, " Dr Piot said.

" In southern Africa, HIV prevalence continues to go

up, and they're already the world record. "

The world is better prepared to deal with the pandemic

than ever before, the report shows. Clear prevention

strategies have been worked out, there is more

funding, and drug treatment that can keep people alive

- although not cure them - is slowly reaching those in

the poorest countries.

By the end of last year, there were 1.3 million people

in the developing world on antiretroviral drugs,

averting between 250,000 and 350,000 deaths.

" We know what needs to be done to stop Aids, " says the

report. " What we need now is the will to get it done. "

It calls for " active and visible leadership " from

heads of state and governments.

" Ultimately, it depends on how the leadership reacts,

how the international community will continue to

respond and how ready communities are to face the

problem, " Dr Piot said.

" Intervention is very low ... for many critical

populations in many countries. We need to really

intensify the response to Aids. "

The report is launched on the eve of a high level

meeting at the UN in New York to assess progress over

the past five years and chart the way forward.

Most countries have a strong foundation on which to

build an effective HIV/Aids response, the report says,

but there are major weaknesses. Education and

prevention programmes are failing to reach those at

greatest risk and few pregnant women are receiving

drug treatment in childbirth to stop them passing the

virus to their baby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Rubbish ---

 

Aids was started in the USA by the constant treatment

of homosexuals who had up to 1200 sexual partners a

year .

 

Not surprisingly they went round to the orthodox Doc

and got a course of ANTIBIOTICS!

 

They then plunged back into the sex scene and got

another dose of clap which was ten " " cured " " by

antibiotics!. Again the immune system was degraded!.

 

Multiply this by the whole homo sex scene at 1200

patners a year and you have an epidemic of AIDS

 

WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE ORTHODOX MEDICAL

ESTALISHMENT!!!

 

As the use of ANTIBIOTICS gradually degrade the immune

system it is unlikely that AIDS will EVER be in

retreat. WE ARE PROPAGATING IT!

 

 

Aids pandemic spreading to every corner of globe, says

UN

· 65 million people have been infected worldwide

· Countries' response is 'nowhere near adequate'

Wednesday May 31, 2006

 

Twenty five years after the first Aids cases were

reported, there is no sign of a halt to the pandemic

which is likely to spread to every corner of the

globe, the head of the United Nations' Aids agency has

said.

Peter Piot was speaking as UNAids released a report

which declares that the world's response to the

disease that has infected about 65 million people and

killed 25 million has been nowhere near adequate.

Five years after a special UN session pledged its

commitment to halting the Aids pandemic, only a few

countries have met the targets laid down.

" I think we will see a further globalisation of the

epidemic spreading to every single corner of the

planet, " said Dr Piot. " It won't go away one fine day,

and then we wake up and say, 'Oh, Aids is gone'. I

think we have to start thinking about looking at the

next generations. There's an increasing diversity in

how the epidemic looks. "

India has the largest number of people living with the

virus. With 5.7m infections, it has overtaken South

Africa's total of 5.5m. But the epidemic is still at

its worst in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of the

world's HIV-infected children live.

One in three pregnant women in South Africa tested

HIV-positive in public antenatal clinics in 2004.

" I think in Africa, it is only comparable in

demographic terms to the slave trade regarding the

impact it has had on the population, " Dr Piot said.

" In southern Africa, HIV prevalence continues to go

up, and they're already the world record. "

The world is better prepared to deal with the pandemic

than ever before, the report shows. Clear prevention

strategies have been worked out, there is more

funding, and drug treatment that can keep people alive

- although not cure them - is slowly reaching those in

the poorest countries.

By the end of last year, there were 1.3 million people

in the developing world on antiretroviral drugs,

averting between 250,000 and 350,000 deaths.

" We know what needs to be done to stop Aids, " says the

report. " What we need now is the will to get it done. "

It calls for " active and visible leadership " from

heads of state and governments.

" Ultimately, it depends on how the leadership reacts,

how the international community will continue to

respond and how ready communities are to face the

problem, " Dr Piot said.

" Intervention is very low ... for many critical

populations in many countries. We need to really

intensify the response to Aids. "

The report is launched on the eve of a high level

meeting at the UN in New York to assess progress over

the past five years and chart the way forward.

Most countries have a strong foundation on which to

build an effective HIV/Aids response, the report says,

but there are major weaknesses. Education and

prevention programmes are failing to reach those at

greatest risk and few pregnant women are receiving

drug treatment in childbirth to stop them passing the

virus to their baby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Bush administration donated millions for treating AIDS

in an African country. The order for the medicines was

bagged by a company that had financed the elections of

Bush. Thus the money came back to US and US still got

the credit of helping Africa fight AIDS. Isn't it

interesting?

 

S. M. Acharya <smacharya

 

--- james white <kennelled wrote:

 

> Rubbish ---

>

> Aids was started in the USA by the constant

> treatment

> of homosexuals who had up to 1200 sexual partners a

> year .

>

> Not surprisingly they went round to the orthodox Doc

> and got a course of ANTIBIOTICS!

>

> They then plunged back into the sex scene and got

> another dose of clap which was ten " " cured " " by

> antibiotics!. Again the immune system was degraded!.

>

> Multiply this by the whole homo sex scene at 1200

> patners a year and you have an epidemic of AIDS

>

> WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE ORTHODOX MEDICAL

> ESTALISHMENT!!!

>

> As the use of ANTIBIOTICS gradually degrade the

> immune

> system it is unlikely that AIDS will EVER be in

> retreat. WE ARE PROPAGATING IT!

>

>

> Aids pandemic spreading to every corner of globe,

> says

> UN

> · 65 million people have been infected worldwide

> · Countries' response is 'nowhere near adequate'

> Wednesday May 31, 2006

>

> Twenty five years after the first Aids cases were

> reported, there is no sign of a halt to the pandemic

> which is likely to spread to every corner of the

> globe, the head of the United Nations' Aids agency

> has

> said.

> Peter Piot was speaking as UNAids released a report

> which declares that the world's response to the

> disease that has infected about 65 million people

> and

> killed 25 million has been nowhere near adequate.

> Five years after a special UN session pledged its

> commitment to halting the Aids pandemic, only a few

> countries have met the targets laid down.

> " I think we will see a further globalisation of the

> epidemic spreading to every single corner of the

> planet, " said Dr Piot. " It won't go away one fine

> day,

> and then we wake up and say, 'Oh, Aids is gone'. I

> think we have to start thinking about looking at the

> next generations. There's an increasing diversity in

> how the epidemic looks. "

> India has the largest number of people living with

> the

> virus. With 5.7m infections, it has overtaken South

> Africa's total of 5.5m. But the epidemic is still at

> its worst in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of the

> world's HIV-infected children live.

> One in three pregnant women in South Africa tested

> HIV-positive in public antenatal clinics in 2004.

> " I think in Africa, it is only comparable in

> demographic terms to the slave trade regarding the

> impact it has had on the population, " Dr Piot said.

> " In southern Africa, HIV prevalence continues to go

> up, and they're already the world record. "

> The world is better prepared to deal with the

> pandemic

> than ever before, the report shows. Clear prevention

> strategies have been worked out, there is more

> funding, and drug treatment that can keep people

> alive

> - although not cure them - is slowly reaching those

> in

> the poorest countries.

> By the end of last year, there were 1.3 million

> people

> in the developing world on antiretroviral drugs,

> averting between 250,000 and 350,000 deaths.

> " We know what needs to be done to stop Aids, " says

> the

> report. " What we need now is the will to get it

> done. "

> It calls for " active and visible leadership " from

> heads of state and governments.

> " Ultimately, it depends on how the leadership

> reacts,

> how the international community will continue to

> respond and how ready communities are to face the

> problem, " Dr Piot said.

> " Intervention is very low ... for many critical

> populations in many countries. We need to really

> intensify the response to Aids. "

> The report is launched on the eve of a high level

> meeting at the UN in New York to assess progress

> over

> the past five years and chart the way forward.

> Most countries have a strong foundation on which to

> build an effective HIV/Aids response, the report

> says,

> but there are major weaknesses. Education and

> prevention programmes are failing to reach those at

> greatest risk and few pregnant women are receiving

> drug treatment in childbirth to stop them passing

> the

> virus to their baby.

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Tired of spam? Mail has the best spam

> protection around

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My goodness - that was a marathon piece of research - and now we KNOW.

Anyone who believes THAT version, will believe that the current world state is the product of benignity on the part of GWB and TB, and our very own Johnny W Howard!!!!, not being accepted by a bunch of ungrateful MEs, who should be kissing our very feet (unwashed of course), for saddling them with the situation they are in now!!!

Jorge

- Jagannath Chatterjee

; alternative_medicine_forum ; health_and_healing ; medicalconspiracies (AT) googl (DOT) com ; medicalconspiracies ; avian2005 ; ayurveda ; naturopaths ; siddha

Friday, May 26, 2006 11:57 PM

AIDS ancestry traced to chimps.

An HIV trail from the wild

 

 

 

 

AIDS ancestry traced to chimps

http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/26/stories/2006052601192000.htm

 

WASHINGTON: Twenty-five years after the first cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, emerged, scientists have confirmed that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Solving the mystery of HIV's ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh faeces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples. Before that, it took seven years just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting endangered species. The tools

Until now, "no one was able to look. No one had the tools," said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She led the team of international researchers that reported this in Friday's edition of Science.

"We're 25 years into this pandemic," Dr. Hahn said. "We don't have a cure. We don't have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those." Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that populates mostly West Africa. It was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man. Dr. Hahn's team tested chimp faeces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon. Chimps tend to form geographically distinct communities. By genetically analysing the faeces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all. Every single infected chimp had a common base genetic pattern that indicated a common ancestor, Dr. Hahn said. There are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let Hahn identify chimp communities near Cameroon's Sanaga river whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes. "The genetic similarity was striking," Dr. Hahn said. The first one

The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed. Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Jagannath) The Sanaga long has been a commercial waterway, for transporting hardwood, ivory and other items to more urban areas. Eventually, someone infected made it to Kinshasa. — AP

 

 

"Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

 

 

Sneak preview the all-new .com. It's not radically different. Just radically better.

 

Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release 3/10/06