The strain of HIV that touched off the U.S. AIDS epidemic and fuelled the global scourge of the disease came to the continent from Africa via Haiti, according to a study released yesterday.Ebola, drug resistant tuberculosis. bird flu... take your pick. It's nature's way of thinning the herd.
A team of researchers conducted genetic analyses of archived blood samples from early AIDS patients who migrated from Haiti to the U.S.
Their calculations suggested there was a greater than 99% probability that the virus went from Africa to Haiti to the U.S.
And we're totally oblivious.
Coming to a neighbourhood near you.
