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To: Cogito who wrote (54942)3/21/2008 3:43:09 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 542148
 
One thing that is known is that there was a very promiscuous gay flight attendant who spread the HIV virus all around the country before anyone knew it even existed. He's known as the Typhoid Mary of AIDS.

That's my memory, too, Allen.

Randy Shilts book, And the Band Played On, was my first exposure to that.

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But that book is fairly old now. It would be interesting to see where that particular narrative stands now.



To: Cogito who wrote (54942)3/21/2008 3:43:54 PM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 542148
 
Allen, were blacks given the syphillis virus as Pastor Wright claimed or was it that already infected blacks were withheld treatment? I've forgotten or maybe even never knew.



To: Cogito who wrote (54942)3/22/2008 12:20:23 AM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542148
 
I also think there's a very large gap between the Tuskegee experiments and the idea of wiping out an entire ethnic group. As reprehensible as the Tuskegee project was, it doesn't approach the level of genocide.

I agree.

Rambi, Syb and I were more arguing state-of-mind.