Did AIDS Virus Come to US Via Haiti as National Academy Science study suggest?
October 2007, National Academy of science team of scientists, published in the journal that a specific strain of the HIV virus passed from Haiti to the United States in about 1969 before spreading further. The team traced the virus by examining archived blood samples from five early AIDS patients – all of them Haitian immigrants to the United States – and analyzed genetic sequences from another group of patients from around the world. Using the data, they developed a map of the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the United States via Haiti, probably by a single person, in around1969. Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson is one of the study’s authors. He says once in the United States, it appears the HIV virus circulated undetected for about a dozen years*. He says the path of the virus he and his colleagues constructed corresponds with the start of the global pandemic and recognition of the first cases of HIV in 1981. Scientists are c
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