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To: Rambi who wrote (242319)	3/16/2008 10:44:02 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793963

The only thing I knew about the Tuskegee name, was the Tuskegee Airmen. We actually got to meet a few of the ones who are left in the late 1990's when they were the STAR attraction to my son's new business. We were able to meet and talk with them, and hear about some of their exploits. We really loved that experience AND them and their families! As far as the other Tuskegee "thing", I had not heard of it before today! Had to look it up on Google to even know what it was that people were so exercised about. Was that something like a medical experiment where half of some people get a new medicine before it is approved, and the other half get nothing? What happens if the medicine that isn't approved yet, actually saves lives, but isn't proven, while some of the others die because they didn't get it? And re AIDS, I know we had HEARD the words mentioned in the early 80's, but really no one much knew what it was. The reason I finally decided to stop doing a spa treatment in a hot tub (about 84 or 85) was because we knew it was not an illness anyone wanted, but we still didn't know where it came from for sure. Here's a part of what Wiki says about AIDS.... Main article: CDC Classification System for HIV Infection In the beginning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not have an official name for the disease, often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus.[52][53] They also used Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981.[54] In the general press, the term GRID, which stood for Gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[55] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the homosexual community,[54] the term GRID became misleading and AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[56] By September 1982 the CDC started using the name AIDS, and properly defined the illness.[57] In 1993, the CDC expanded their definition of AIDS to include all HIV positive people with a CD4+ T cell count below 200 per µL of blood or 14% of all lymphocytes.[58] The majority of new AIDS cases in developed countries use either this definition or the pre-1993 CDC definition. The AIDS diagnosis still stands even if, after treatment, the CD4+ T cell count rises to above 200 per µL of blood or other AIDS-defining illnesses are cured. 88888 Main article: AIDS origin AIDS was first reported June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now still classified as PCP but known to be caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii) in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.[147] Three of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are: 1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in Kinshasa, today part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[148] 2. HIV found in tissue samples from "Robert R.", a 15 year old African-American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.[149] 3. HIV found in tissue samples from Arvid Noe, a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.[150] Two species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is not as easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa.[151] Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin. The origin of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) found in southern Cameroon.[152] It is established that HIV-2 originated from the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon. Most experts believe that HIV probably transferred to humans as a result of direct contact with primates, for instance during hunting or butchery.[153] A more controversial theory known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis suggests that the AIDS epidemic was inadvertently started in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a poliomyelitis vaccine.[154][155] According to scientific consensus, this scenario is not supported by the available evidence.[156][157][158] A recent study states that HIV probably moved from Africa to Haiti and then entered the United States around 1969.[159]