HN51 aware?

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Originally Posted by marichiko

After all, who would have ever imagined that a few monkeys in Africa and a French gay airline steward would be responsible for all the suffering and deaths of the AIDS epidemic?

Much as I love blaming the French for anything, Gaetan Dugas, widely identified as "Patient Zero" was French Canadian.

The French end up being as close to good guys as you can get in the AIDS story, being the first to successfully isolate and identify the virus.

Ebola is probably higher risk than H5N1, unless the Avian flu gets better at crossing the species barrier. That eola shit is really a lot scarier, even given that the infectious process tends to burn itself out rather quickly once it's identified and infection control procedures are followed to the letter. At least Ebola isn't airborne.