Origins of AIDS, origins of blame: early cases: The US, Africa, Europe, Haiti

ABSTRACT

When a new and deadly disease appears, it is natural to want to know where it comes from. So far, we do not know the origins of the HIV virus which causes AIDS. Much scientific effort (and far more wholly non-scientific speculation) has been devoted to this question. Unfortunately, the debate about the origins of AIDS has become hopelessly mixed with questions of who - which country, which race, is to blame for starting the epidemic (AU)