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By studying chimpanzee droppings in remote African
\n jungles, scientists reported yesterday, they have found direct evidence
\n of a missing link between a chimpanzee virus and the one that causes
\n human AIDS.<\/p>\n
Scientists have long suspected that chimpanzees are the source of the human
\n AIDS pandemic because at least one subspecies carries a simian immune deficiency
\n virus closely related to H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.<\/p>\n
But because the simian virus, known as S.I.V.cpz, was identified in chimpanzees
\n in captivity, researchers could not be sure that the same simian virus
\n existed among these apes in the wild.<\/p>\n
It does, the team of American, European and Cameroonian
\n scientists reported in the journal Science. They found it by testing
\n hundreds of chimpanzee droppings collected in Cameroon.<\/p>\n
The genetic and immunologic tests were developed in stages over the past
\n seven years to help trace the evolution of H.I.V. and solve the mysterious
\n origins of AIDS, said Dr. Beatrice H. Hahn, a virologist at the University
\n of Alabama in Birmingham. <\/p>\n
The new findings, she said in a telephone interview, do not explain
\n the entire chain of events that led from the first human H.I.V. infection
\n to the infection of 65 million people around the world.<\/p>\n
from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n Rationalists will say this shows that overcrowding, Those of a truly conspiratorial bent will note that Either way, by God’s hand or man’s, infectious diseases Most people will never go out. Food will be No one will actually take traveling vacations anymore, Education will be solely on-line, as will art galleries, Actual physical proximity will become the ultimate sign Of course, not everyone will be able to afford this What does all this mean to normal, average Joes By studying chimpanzee droppings in remote African jungles, scientists reported yesterday, they have found direct evidence of a missing link between a chimpanzee virus and the one that causes human AIDS. Scientists have long suspected that chimpanzees are the source … Continue reading
\n poverty and intimate contact between humans and various other animal
\n species means we will see an increasing number of diseases and plagues
\n jumping species, interspecies mutations destined to eventually cull the
\n overpopulation of the planet in a Malthusian nightmare.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n were one determined to create a deadly plague, a good space to start
\n would be the genetic blueprint of a virus affecting our closest biological
\n relatives, the chimpanzees.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n seem destined to proliferate in the future, further informing the Dowbrigade’s
\n dark vision of what lies ahead for us all. We see increasingly common
\n and extreme germ phobias breaking out in the general populations, millions
\n of middle-class Howard Hughes spending billions to seal themselves off
\n in hermetically controlled environments.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n delivered by robot cars or guest workers from whatever national cuisine
\n provides
\n the meal, and irradiated before allowed into the home. All informational
\n and sensorial information about the outside world will come through the
\n eventual successor to fiber optic cable – phone, interactive TV, games,
\n Internet, first-run movies, work, payment for work, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n unless they have a very strong deathwish. Besides, with gasoline and
\n jet fuel at $135 a gallon, it’ll too expensive to go far. Instead, VR
\n travelogues, media immersion rooms and designer pharmaceuticals will
\n assuage the seemingly universal human need for vacations.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n sporting events, musical performances, political rallies and private
\n parties. Disease and terrorist attacks will make it too dangerous to
\n gather large groups of people anywhere without a secure military perimeter
\n and health screenings for all participants. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n of trust and intimacy. Letting another person into the same room with
\n one would have many of the same implications that sleeping with someone
\n does today.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n new hermetic lifestyle. Which is why while life expectancy for bubble
\n people should rise towards 110 or 120, in the less fortunate corners
\n of the world, with plague, famine and resource warfare rampant, it should
\n fall to 25 or 30. Maybe it will balance out, and the world’s average
\n life expectancy would stay the same, but we doubt it.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n in today’s America? Try buying stock in drug companies, and make sure
\n your medical
\n insurance is paid up…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"