Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Aids in Africa Scientists have concluded, based on mathematical research, that the virus that leads to the epidemic of AIDS can be traced all the way back to the 1930’s, somewhere around Central Africa. Bette Korber, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, presented this conclusion at the “COR” or otherwise known as the Conference of Retroviruses. The results presented by Bette Korber, not only argued the before mentioned allegations, but also moved us toward finding out where the virus really came from and in which direction it is heading in the future. The first sample discovered in 1959 comes from a man in the Congo, who died as a member of the M class of HIV, the type that most people are infected with today. However old the virus was, it was noticed that it wasn’t the first of its kind. The reason that the virus was ever connected to polio is because in the same year of 1959, the introduction of oral polio vaccines, supposedly tested on chimpanzees, came to the continent of Africa. It is quite definite that the virus came from chimpanzees in the area around Gabon, Cameroon, and the Central African rainforest. It most probably passed onto the hunters while they were butchering the animals. A