AIDS Emerged 100 Years Ago, Study Says

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

One can hardly fathom the horror of life in the Congo Free State during the turn of the last century when native Africans suffered genocide at the hand of Belgium’s King Leopold II. In those conditions, no one would have noticed people dying of a strange disease that would not be named for another hundred years. No one would have noticed people dying of AIDS. read more

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