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PDXria
I'm not sure if you've seen it, but I updated the AIDS post yesterday with more information on the serial vaccination theory of how they think the virus was created. I'm curious if it still sounds implausible to you.
Re: PDXria
Hi! Sorry. Yeah, it still doesn't make sense to me, but I am not a virologist. For instance, they're inoculating all of these people in one day. The virus would not have even had time to infect a cell and start replicating between people, so I still don't understand how that drives mutation or is even a "serial infection" at all. Sure, they're potentially infecting a lot of people at once. But even then, alcohol actually does a decent job of killing the virus, so if they did actually clean out the syringes between patients then they probably didn't infect as many people as they're hypothesizing.
Like I said, though, I'm no virologist. It just sounds like wild speculation to me. Dr. Lorneypants would be a better source for this.
The poster formerly known as PDXPhotoGrl
Lorne sez:
The vaccine theory is a popular theory, but it's been thoroughly refuted. We are pretty confident that it's the slaughtering and eating (and really the slaughtering) of bushmeat, the bushmeat trade (hunters that killed primates and sold them in markets) in West Central Africa. As best we can tell, the HIV virus made the jump from chimpanzee (there were actually several jumps, but this is the one we think caused the worldwide pandemic) to humans via the bushmeat trade sometimes between the 1890s and 1920s. It really has been in humans that long.