- Humans, apes, monkeys, and chimps are ALL primates. In
the classification of the species, "HUMAN PRIMATES" are separated
from "NON-HUMAN PRIMATES."
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- If is so easy for viruses from non-human primates to
be transferred into "human" primates like us (see below) ------
surely it is easy to pass HUMAN viruses into non-human primates. This species
transfer of viruses between human and non-human primate species has been
going on PRIMARILY in laboratory virus transfer EXPERIMENTS for the past
half century.
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- Rather than hunting for possible "precursors"
of HIV in the African jungle, why has there been NO ATTEMPT to look at
the various LABORATORY viruses that were combined in the 1960s and 1970s
by mixing together human and non-human primate viruses?
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- These scientists who are looking for HIV precursors in
the African bush should know full well that it is much more likely that
the "origin" of HIV can be found in the virus transfer experiments
between monkeys and man, particularly during the 1970s "WAR ON CANCER"
that preceded the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the USA in the late
1970s EXCLUSIVELY among gay men -- and the outbreak of the African AIDS
epidemic that began in the early 1980s.
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- This is the why the "man-made theory of origin"
of HIV/AIDS ( via contaminated vaccines) is the most likely explanation
for the "mysterious origin" of AIDS -- and why scientists have
been loath to consider this hypothesis -- and why it is still a TABOO subject
in medical science and the brain-dead major media.
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- Regards,
- Alan Cantwell, MD
- Author of AIDS AND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH
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- For more information, do a google search for: "man-made
AIDS" (1,060 citations)
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- African Ape Hunters Pick Up New 'HIV Family' Viruses
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- BBC News
- 5-17-5
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- Two new viruses from the same family as HIV have been
discovered in central Africans who hunt non-human primates.
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- Researchers say their work proves it is not unusual
for potentially dangerous viruses to jump from primates to man.
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- They say it is important to monitor disease in bushmeat
hunters closely, as any virus they contract from animals may spread to
the community at large.
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- The study, led by the US Johns Hopkins University, is
published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- "Far from being rare events, retroviruses are actively
crossing into human populations."
- --Dr Nathan Wolfe
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- The new viruses identified in the latest study come
from a group known as the retroviruses, which are known to cause serious
illnesses in humans.
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- They have been named Human T-lymphotropic Virus types
3 and 4 (HTLV-3 and HTLV-4).
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- Humans have previously been infected by HTLV-1 and HTLV-2.
In most cases, infection does not produce symptoms, but it can trigger
neurological problems, and even leukaemia.
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- Lead researcher Dr Nathan Wolfe said: "The emergence
of HIV from primate origins has cost millions of lives.
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- "The discoveries of HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 show that,
far from being rare events, retroviruses are actively crossing into human
populations."
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- Blood Samples
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- The research team collected and examined blood samples
from more than 900 people living throughout Cameroon.
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- All the individuals studied reported some exposure to
blood and body fluids of nonhuman primates, contact mostly due to hunting
and butchering of bushmeat, and in some cases to keeping primates as pets.
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- Analysis of the blood samples showed that various simian
(ape) viruses had infected the participants.
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- The two previously unknown viruses were found in two
bushmeat hunters.
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- HTLV-3 is similar to a simian virus called STLV-3, and
was most likely contracted through direct contact with a primate during
hunting.
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- HTLV-4 does not have a known primate counterpart, making
its origin less clear. The researchers believe it could have arisen through
cross-species transmission from an animal carrying an unknown form of STLV.
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- The same team discovered another primate retrovirus
- the simian foamy virus (SFV) - in bushmeat hunters last year.
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- Threat Unclear
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- At this stage it is unclear whether either of the two
newly discovered viruses or SFV are harmful to humans, or can be transferred
from person to person.
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- However, the researchers say their work clearly shows
that hunting provides the opportunity for viruses to jump the species barrier.
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- Dr Wolfe said: "Ongoing collaboration with hunters
in central Africa gives us the potential to predict and prevent disease
emergence.
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- "Given the incredible potential costs of a new
human retrovirus spreading into the general population, the development
of sentinel systems for forecasting disease emergence - such as long-term
surveillance of hunters - should be seen as a human health imperative."
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- Dr Deenan Pillay, an expert in virology at University
College London, UK, told the BBC News website that it had been thought
few viruses jumped the species barrier.
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- "This research suggests that there seems to be
far more transmission of a whole range of primate viruses into humans than
was previously thought," he said.
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- "But that is not alarming in its own right. If
the virus fails to replicate, or to be passed on to others, then it does
not pose a threat.
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- "However, if cross-species transmission is such
a frequent event, then all it takes is for one virus to really take hold
in somebody, and be passed on to others for it to take off in humans."
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4551085.stm
- © BBC MMV
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