Relaxed molecular clock analyses incorporating DRC60 and ZR59 date the most recent common ancestor of the M group to near the beginning of the twentieth century.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/pdf/nature07390.pdf
This should put the origin of HIV virus based on genetic clock to around 1910-1920. Where these profit hungry parmaceutical companies already abusing African population as cheap human guinea pigs for their drug tests as early as that time? If so the maybe there's meat to the sensational claim above.
But there is a consensus that a great deal of blame for the spread of HIV virus in humans is due to the tremendous growth of prostitution during the colonial times in Africa. This in turn can be traced to the Europeans. (I know this would be music to the ears of our friend here.) :thumb:
And the earliest scientifically studied HIV human infection is:
A viral sequence from 1959 (ZR59) is the oldest known HIV-1 infection.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/pdf/nature07390.pdf
And talking about meat, it is believed that HIV-1 is a mutation of a strain of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) found in Chimpazees in Africa. These chimps often end up in the table of people on that region.
Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1
Lesson? Widen up your knowledge by reading more materials. This kind of sensational claims, obviously anti-big business, or any sensational claim for that matter should always be taken with a grain of salt. :cool2:
