Brought to you by Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ:

In a secret underground laboratory subordinate to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an evil, white government scientist discovers the cure for America’s “persons of color” (POC) pandemic.

It was a terrible, dark, shameful secret that was bound to be discovered someday, by someone.  And it was discovered, indeed—discovered by the indefatigable sleuth-iness of the right honorable Reverend Jeremiah Wright who, having uncovered the unsavory plot, proclaimed vociferously:

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Yes, indeed.

But seriously, where did Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) come from, if not from the bowels of the Centers for Disease Control?  Well, according to the international HIV and AIDS charity AVERT:

It is now generally accepted that HIV is a descendant of a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus because certain strains of SIVs bear a very close resemblance to HIV-1 and HIV-2, the two types of HIV.

HIV-2 for example corresponds to SIVsm, a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus found in the sooty mangabey (also known as the green monkey), which is indigenous to western Africa.

The more virulent, pandemic strain of HIV, namely HIV-1, was until recently more difficult to place. Until 1999, the closest counterpart that had been identified was SIVcpz, the SIV found in chimpanzees. However, this virus still had certain significant differences from HIV.

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In February 1999 a group of researchers from the University of Alabama1 announced that they had found a type of SIVcpz that was almost identical to HIV-1. This particular strain was identified in a frozen sample taken from a captive member of the sub-group of chimpanzees known as Pan troglodytes troglodytes (P. t. troglodytes), which were once common in west-central Africa.

The researchers (led by Paul Sharp of Nottingham University and Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama) made the discovery during the course of a 10-year long study into the origins of the virus. They claimed that this sample proved that chimpanzees were the source of HIV-1, and that the virus had at some point crossed species from chimps to humans.

Ruh roh! and holy crap!  It seems that HIV came from…gasp…AFRICA!

Dare I say that? Is it politically correct?

Argh.  I guess good ole Jeremiah will be taking me off his Christmas card list now.

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