justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/11/11 at 12:53:25:You guys dont remember how HIV got started do you?
Back in the day, in several large cities, the goobs Announced the had a Vaccine they could give to people who lived an "At Risk" Lifestyle. ALL you had to do was go in & theyd Give you a shot. In a couple of years, aids was popping up on a large scale. If youre 56 or older, THINK & TRY to remember,., I remember..I saw it. But, by the time the disease started growing at "Scary" speeds, I had forgotten the vaccine for free program.. I finally remembered it.
AIDS did not get its start as a government vaccination program. When did you say this happened? Given that the world's first known AIDS death was in 1959, all the people age 56 or over would have to have been very young children to remember any type of program. The first US infection is believed to have been in the early to mid sixties with his death coming in 1969.
HIV-1 is thought to be a mutation of two or more types of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). The unlucky mutation (for humans) is that it was then able to cross species. There have been numerous diseases which have attained this genetic feat. Avian bird flu, anyone? The history of SIV has been traced back 32,000 years. The whole picture about the exact origin of the disease and the jump to humans will likely never be more than theory, but just knowing where it came from helps researchers move forward to learn how to stop it.
So, definitively NO. It was not a government "vaccine".