Patient Zero

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham say they have positively identified the source of the virus which causes AIDS: Pan troglodytes — chimpanzees. The research may help find a cure, and counters conspiracy theories that HIV was invented by the military as a biological weapon. The new findings “should absolutely put an end to conspiracy theories that HIV was created in a laboratory,” said University of Colorado, Denver, professor of medicine Dr. Constance Benson. (UPI) ...Since when have conspiracy theorists let facts get in their way?