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- Hi, Jeff...
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- As you know, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was not
recognized as the virus causing AIDS until 1983. HIV was first called
"Human T-cell Leukemia Type III" or HTLV-III. About 1985-1986,
the name was changed to HIV.
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- The immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was officially recognized
in 1981. Cases involving "gay bowel" syndrome had first appeared
about 1977 or so in the United States and it is now known that this was
the appearance of HIV in the United States.
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- Today, 2000, we are told that the closest relative virus
to HIV is Simian Immunodeficiency Virus in chimpanzees (SIVcpz), isolated
from a chimpanzee named "Marilyn" in 1985 and recently found
to be 78% genetically similar to the HIV virus. We are told that HIV/AIDS
erupted in central Africa as a result of people butchering and eating monkeys
and so a SIV may have accidentally entered humans through blood contact.
We are told that the African monkey SIV diseases have been around for
several thousands of years. We are told by the medical community that
the first case of human HIV/AIDS likely occurred between 1675 to 1930 when
it was probably transferred to humans by accident.
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- HIV shares 24% pol gene protein similarity to bovine
leukemia virus (BLV) and 33% pol gene protein similarity with bovine visna-like
virus (BIV) according to comparisons done using the Los Alamos NIH nucleotide
library.
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- In 1974 an experiment occurred in which two infant chimpanzees
were fed milk from cows that were infected with bovine leukemia virus [1].
These chimpanzees developed a T-cell-depleteing leukemia, called "erythroleukemia",
and, two years later, in 1976, they died of a immunodeficiency disorder
with symptoms of wasting/anorexia, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and
bacterial invasion as a result of loss of T-cells that normally fight infection.
The researchers highlighted that this was the FIRST time they had ever
seen P carinii associated with death in primates. [2]
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- The immunodeficiency disease of these chimps was strikingly
like that seen now in persons with AIDS, i.e., wasting/anorexia, loss of
T-cells, and P carinii pneumonia. As bovine leukemia virus (BLV) shares
24% protein similiarity with HIV and as these chimps were deliberately
infected with BLV in 1974 and died in 1976 with an AIDS-like disease it
is clear that the virus in these chimps who died in 1976 needs to be examined
and compared to HIV. Too, this information is precedential in that we
now have a documented case of intentional human-created viral immunodeficiency
disease in primates occuring nearly a decade before the recognition of
HIV as the cause of AIDS. We have often been told that this was impossible.
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- If this virus is compared to HIV and found substantially
genetically closer to HIV than SIVcpz (the closest known primate relative
of HIV) we may conclude that we are on the trail of the origin of HIV in
the study of primates infected with bovine leukemia or bovine visna-like
viruses in the laboratory during the era 1965-1975. If this virus is found
to be more genetically distant from HIV than SIVcpz, we may conclude that
this infection of chimps with bovine leukemia virus may not have given
rise to HIV but may be a close relative, e.g., Simian T-cell Leukemia Virus
(STLV). As of August, 2000, no researcher has genetically sequenced the
virus from the frozen sera of these two BLV-infected chimps who died from
a T-cell-depleting, P carinii-causing, wasting/anorexia-causing immunodeficiency
disorder in 1976. No researcher has compared this virus to HIV. Why is
that?
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- Finally, as this condition of viral-caused T-cell immunodefiency
with wasting and P carinii was known in primates by 1976, why did it take
another 7 years before HIV was found in humans who had AIDS when a model
of an AIDS-like condition had already long existed in chimpanzees? It
seems to me there should have been no mystery concerning HIV disease when
there was a chimpanzee model of the disease already present.
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- [1] McClure HM, Keeling ME, Custer RP, Marshak RR, Abt
DA, Ferrer JF. Erythroleukemia in two infant chimpanzees fed milk from
cows naturally infected with the bovine C-type virus. Cancer Res. 1974
Oct;34(10):2745-57.
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- [2] Chandler FW, McClure HM, Campbell WG, Watts JC.
Pulmonary pneumocystosis in nonhuman primates. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1976
Mar;100(3):163-7.
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- For further information go to http://www.bhc.edu/EastCampus/leeb/aids/index.html
Also go to http://www.charmwrite.com
and examine AIDS: An Explosion of the Biological Timebomb?
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