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Originally Posted by filtherton
Not saying that i agree with the idea that HIV was developed to wipe out africans, but as a bioweapon, aids is pretty manageable in the first world. However, as reality would seem to indicate, it gets pretty out of hand in the third world, where little or bad information and low quality medical care mix. In other words, it is a really good bioweapon for attacking the third world, because it is relatively easy to avoid if you know how to do it, and really easy to contract if you don't know how to do it.
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Doesn't that describe pretty much every virus in the third world?
Tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, malaria, typhoid... hell, the most common cause of death in third world infants is diarrhea.
The first world probably has fewer instances of all these combined (except diarrhea) than HIV and AIDS. There are plenty of good viruses out there that are easier to stop in the West, kill in a far shorter time, spread more easily and they probably dont take a great stretch to become even more efficient at the hands of someone who knows how.
Instead someone goes to the trouble of creating a new virus, one that potentially takes years to kill and is incurable in the West.
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial"
Avian flu and SARS anyone?