The HIV/AIDS Conspiracy

The HIV/AIDS Virus Conspiracy

In 2016, 1.1 million people died of HIV/AIDS related viruses worldwide. Such a widespread, contagious, disease should be heavily investigated for treatment, if not cured. These actions must be so difficult to approach because no one is able to exactly pinpoint the true cause of the epidemic. The most common theory is that of animals transmitting a “naturally occurring” disease. The U.S. CDC believes, “Scientists identified a type of chimpanzee in Central Africa as the source of HIV infection in humans. They believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees

Dr. van Griensven explains, “However, it is clear that the first AIDS cases were recorded in gay men in Manhattan in 1979, a few years before the epidemic was first noticed in Africa in 1982.” Essentially, the first publicized cases of HIV were recorded from Africa; but, further investigations show the dates of the first ever recorded cases were even further back. Another unsettling statistic is explained by Dave Zacky, “The astounding and statistically significant fact is that 20% of the gay men who volunteered for the hepatitis B experiment in New York were discovered to be HIV-positive in 1980 (a year before AIDS became "official" in 1981)¨. With that being said, an entire fifth of the specimen the government tested on were found to be HIV positive after being experimented on; even before the disease was truly publicized. A Harvard scientist by the name of Leonard G. Horowitz tells us, “We conclude that SIV cannot become a zoonosis, but requires adaptive mutations to become HIV¨ (par. 5). Zoonosis is a disease that can be transferred from animals to humans, or vice versa; the simian immunodeficiency virus is not capable of jumping species, as Horowitz concludes. Since the disease cannot be directly transmitted, how would it have jumped species so quickly? This question remains unanswered, hence another gap in the