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A few of our bloggers don't give credit to authors and websites for some bizarre and unexplained reasons.

Flow, one our most prolific "poster" is one of them! As a college student, she should be aware of the consequences of plagiarism, theft of intellectual property, use and distribution of copyrighted materials...I was appalled by her failure to acknowledge and to give credit to the authors of: Origins of HIV and The first case of AIDS, written by Annabel Kanabus & Sarah Allen, and updated by Bonita de Boer who cite their sources, so people can verify the veracity of their statements.

Flow has taken all her information from this website: avert.org/origins.htm
and did not say thanks to the Malice who first referred us to it! Here are the sources of the info reported on the article.

1-Gao, F; Bailes, E; Robertson, DL; Chen, Y; et al. (1999) "Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes." Nature, Vol. 397, p. 436-44
2-Bailes et al. (2003) "Hybrid Origin of SIV in Chimpanzees", Science, Vol. 300, p. 1713
3-Wolfe, ND; Switzer, WM; Carr, JK; et al. (20 March 2004) "Naturally acquired simian retrovirus infections in Central African Hunters." The Lancet, Vol. 363, p. 932
4-Cohen, John (October 2000) "The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS" The Atlantic, Vol. 286 No. 4, p. 88-104
5-Blancou, P. et al. (2001) "Polio vaccine samples not linked to AIDS" Nature, Vol. 410, p. 1045-1046
6-Berry, N. et al. (2001) "Vaccine safety: Analysis of oral polio vaccine CHAT stocks." Nature, Vol. 410, p. 1046-1047
7-Chitnis, A.; Rawls, D. & Moore, J. (January 2000) "Origin of HIV Type 1 in Colonial French Equatorial Africa?" AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Vol. 16 No. 1, p. 5-8
8-Fears, D. (25 January 2005) "Study: Many Blacks Cite AIDS Conspiracy", The Washington Post.
9- Zhu, Tuofu, Korber & Nahinias.

"An African HIV-1 Sequence from 1959 and Implications for the Origin of the Epidemic" Nature, 1998: 391: p. 594-597
10-KOLATA, Gina (28 October 1987) "Boy's 1969 death suggests AIDS invaded U.S. several times" New York Times
11-Frøland, SS; Jenum, P; Lindboe, CF; Wefring, KW; Linnestad, PJ; Böhmer, T. (1988) "HIV-1 infection in Norwegian family before 1970" The Lancet p.1344-5
12-Vandamme, A-M et al. "Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic" PNAS, Vol. 100, No. 11, 27 May 2003.
13-BBC.co.uk. (25 May 2006) "HIV origin 'found in wild chimps'"
14-Farmer, P. (1992) "AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame".

University of California Press.

15-Carter, M. (02 March 2007) "CROI: Haiti is the source of HIV subtype B", Aidsmap.com.
16-Chong, J-R (30 October 2007) "Analysis clarifies route of AIDS", LA Times
17-Shilts, R. (1987) "And the Band Played on: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic", Penguin.

Other Sources
Grmek, Mirko D. "History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic", Princetown University Press, 1990
Moore, Jim. "The Puzzling Origin Of AIDS", American Scientist, November- December 2004.
www.thebody.com
www.aidsorigins.com
It woud be encouraging to thank a fellow blogger when she/he refers us to a website!

I Know she will chew me up, and call her divine spirits on me! But my name is Legba, a nasty "lwa" represented by a Serpent; I bite, and my venom is fatal...

I can make her dance day and night!

Papa Legba, November 2 2007, 4:39 PM

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