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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by an Anonymous Donor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If the post below purports to be an original article on "HIV/AIDS Awareness" then it is important for readers to know that what is written about AIDS in it is, almost in its entirety, lifted verbatim from the following two websites: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/hiv-f19.shtml http://www.avert.org/aafrica.htm The post also contains gross errors. For example, it is claimed that an article about HIV was written in Nature by someone called Barry Mason on February 19, 1999. This is not true. Actually, Barry Mason has written an article on the World Socialist Website on February 19, 1999. This article is indeed one of the URLs referred to above, the contents of which have been lifted in the said Goanet post on AIDS. The specific link again is: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/hiv-f19.shtml Another error in that post is an error committed by Barry Mason himself. It should therefore not be surprising that this error has been copied with the rest of the lifted material in it, namely that the Chimpanzee virus research was done by Feng Goa. The correct name of this researcher is Feng Gao. Cheers, Santosh --- Sanny Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Definition for AIDS virus: There is no such thing as > an AIDS virus. AIDS is > acquired immune deficiency syndrome which is a > result of the HIV virus. HIV > is human immunodeficiency virus. > Origins of HIV virus:- An article by Barry Mason on > February 19, 1999 in the > scientific magazine Nature explains that the main > type of human > immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, which causes AIDS, > originates in a subspecies > of chimpanzees from equatorial West Africa. The > February 4, 1999 report > details the work carried out by a group of > researchers at the Department of > Medicine and Microbiology at the University of > Alabama, Birmingham led by > Feng Goa. >......................................... ------------------------------------------------------- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at: http://www.goacom.org/casa-de-goa/noticias.html -------------------------------------------------------