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Where Did AIDS Begin?(Periscope; Politics Of Disease)(Brief article)
Byline: Mary Carmichael
Last week Haiti's Ambassador to Washington, Raymond Joseph, was flooded with irate phone calls about Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona. Worobey just published a paper showing that HIV first hitchhiked to America around 1969 in the body of a single person, who caught the disease in Haiti.
Worobey says he "in no way" places blame on Haitians, but they already feel persecuted because so many early cases were Haitian, and now they fear more discrimination. "How do we know," Joseph asks, "that a homosexual infected in America didn't bring HIV to Haiti instead?"
Not possible, says Worobey, who has constructed a family tree for the virus, which shows "with greater than 99 ...
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