October 26, 2004

ISN'T THAT HOW MAGIC JOHNSON CLAIMS HE GOT IT?:

Eating bushmeat 'linked to HIV-like virus' (Sydney Morning Herald, October 27, 2004)

A virus similar to the HIV strain which causes AIDS has passed from apes to humans as a result of eating "bushmeat" in central Africa, an expert has warned.

It is not yet known whether Simian Foamy Virus (SFV) is harmful to humans, but there are considerable concerns because this is the same route by which HIV is understood to have entered the human population.

Bushmeat - some of which is the flesh of jungle apes including protected species such as gorillas - is eaten by large numbers of people in Africa and has been found on sale in Britain.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 26, 2004 12:10 PM
Comments

Nice double-entendre

Posted by: Bartman at October 26, 2004 12:48 PM

Don't call Isaiah Thomas "bush meat"!

Posted by: Foos at October 26, 2004 04:29 PM

If what we think we know about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is at all close to the truth, it could never enter the bloodstream via the alimentary canal. It lacks the robustness required to survive the conditions there.

The only exception would be for persons with bleeding sores in the mouth, esophagus, or stomach.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at October 26, 2004 05:45 PM

Francis, wouldn't that be about 70% of the population?

I'd suggest they switch to Kerrymeat; snakes lizards and frogs.

Posted by: Genecis at October 27, 2004 11:00 AM

Yet more evidence of "Intelligent Design", I take it...

What group will suffer God's wrath via African hunters this time ?

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 27, 2004 06:12 PM
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