HIV/Aids and Ebola, don’t blame it all on Africa

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Ghanadot

October 06, 2014

The Independent newspaper of UK has this story:  “A “perfect storm” of factors that came together in colonial Africa early last century led to the spread of Aids in the human population …..”

So starts this extraordinary hypothesis on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The thinking about the current rage of Ebola in West Africa can fit in the same scenario.

But why the hurry to pin point Africa as the one and only source?

Two reasons come to mind.  The first being Africa itself, a defenseless continent that lacks serious, vibrant and competent governance.  The other is a world that is intent on hiding something that may have gone awry.

As the story goes, “A genetic analysis of thousands of individual viruses has confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that HIV first emerged in Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo, in about 1920 from where it spread via the colonial railway network to other parts of central Africa.”

And the virus samplings were all collected from Africa?

Knowing what has gone on in Africa over the ages, you don’t have to be a scientist to tell that the above is a very facile conclusion; easily a version of the same old image of Africa in European eyes.

The overt factors in the conclusion are, the Belgian Congo, colonial railway, bush meat and sex.

It is about Africa.   Therefore sex must be allowed in the hypothesis.  Coincidentally, both HIV and Ebola are principally spread through sex and/or contact with the bodily fluid of the affected.

 “Scientists believe the findings have finally nailed the origin of the Aids pandemic to a single source.”

 And  “a colonial-era city then called Leopoldville which had become the biggest urban centre in Central Africa and a bustling focus for trade, including a market in wild “bush meat” captured from the nearby.”

Bush meat? What about if the HIV/AIDS virus had a manufactured genocidal intent?

In Africa, they call it “bush meat”.  Elsewhere it is “game meat.” But only in Africa can the sheer happenstance of this same diet result in the two most dreadful diseases of recent history.

Tracing back into history, especially to the Europe of early 14^th century, there was The Black Plague that had some semblance to the current Ebola trait raging in West Africa, about 4000 deaths so far in a matter of two months only.

The plague in Europe was attributed to the free will of fleas on rats. In Africa, it is the active complicity of human consumption of “bush meat”!

Either way, Ebola, HIV/AIDS or The Black Plague is here.  And the virus has the natural capacity to wipe a population out.

The Center for Disease Control in America (CDC) has described the plaque virus as a “Weapon of War”.   And indeed, it has been used as such in history.  The CDC now has concerns for national security “because of its potential for use by terrorists.”

This is the CDC that is worried about the use of a virus as "weapon of war" (a genocidal bullet, if you will) and not an off the road conspiracy theorist!

At the trial of  Dr. Wouter Basson, of  “Coast Experiment,” in South Africa in 2013, it was revealed that Basson was working on genocidal drugs and that the then apartheid regime had such intent for some among its population.

Dr. Basson had developed a  “ range of biological and chemical pathogens.” Including “anthrax, botulinum, cholera, plague, E. coli, Ebola and Marburg virus”; all genetically engineered and lethal to affect “only non-white people.”

The genocidal intent of the apartheid regime predated Basson’s. There were similar researches spurred by the regime’s fear of demand by black South Africa for the "freedom and equality" that was happening on the rest of the continent.

By 2001, South Africa has had a higher HIV/AIDS mortality rate  than found in any country.

Coincidence; do we know?  We don’t.  But we are entitled to our skepticism.  Was Basson’s drugs left out of the considerations for the hypothesis?

Instead, the source of the HIV/AIDS epidemic would be found in Kinshasa, some 1738 flight miles away from Johannesburg; a simple denial of proximity to make room for the “game” or “bush meat” theory. 

Then the connectors; the railroad and sex to spread the epidemic follow.  Are we to assume that no white Belgium had sex with ” bush meat” eating black Belgium Congolese in the early 1920s before he or she  went back to Europe?

 Impertinent as this question is, it still begs to consider that whites were already in the Congo before the end of the 19^th century.  Many brought new diseases that for lack of immunity killed many indigenes. But miraculously these whites escaped contacts with “bush meat” eating Africans of both sexes!  

And certainly, if they did have contact with the Congolese it wouldn’t have been with those who had HIV/AIDS or Ebola viruses in either cases, the hypothesis seems to suggest!

The theory that railroad transportation spread HIV/AIDS but only to parts within the Congo is suspect and a reminder of how desperate this scientific explanation is to keep Europe out of any further hypothesis. 

All railroad transportation in the Belgian Congo might have ended on land.  Not so for sea transportation of that era. Steamships brought passengers and goods to and from Europe.  They could also have brought the disease either way.

Isn’t it also curious to know that those in West Africa, suffering from this current nasty bout of Ebola, ate the same “bush meat” for generations, had the same transportation links but missed the early impact of the HIV/AIDS and Ebola viruses that hit the settler regions of Central and Southern Africa?

Could the reason be that none desired this area as a permanent settler region for whites?

Because of this desire, as has been proven by history, life for blacks in the settler regions has been brutal and racist.  Monstrous racial wars for space and superiority were waged and the clandestine weapons of war might have been the toxic drugs described in the Coast Experiments against the natives. 

Could the HIV/AIDS or Ebola virus have been man made, accidental or otherwise and was this considered in the hypothesis?  

This question is not an attack on research or science.  It targets a hypothesis that is seriously flawed.   And, it suspects that there is a hidden intent to camouflage the real cause and at the same time to indict Africa as a backward place worthy of being the only origin for these most deadly pandemic, biblical plagues of the modern age. 

The hurry to hide the intent is indecent, brutal and adds to the negative image problem of Africa. 

Unfortunately, the negative image will continue because African governments wouldn’t do anything about it.  They tend to need the helplessness imposed by the affliction so as to attract foreign aid. 

Back in the 70s when the sequencing of human genome was in progress, I had a professor at Howard University who complained that science was getting too curious about the human genetic structure and that this knowledge could allow some mischief.

Long before my time at Howard, mischief on human gene experimentations had already started.  The “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele of WWII in Hitler’s Germany had done it in the interest of creating a superior race. Apartheid was an outgrowth of this Nazi ideology of racial superiority.

Nearby in Namibia, on Shark Island, and before WWII, the world's first death camp was set up and thousands of blacks died there in faux science experiments and other cruelties.

Back in America there was the horrifying experiment on black sexuality at Tuskegee, USA, using black men suffering from syphilis as subjects. In the guise of providing cure for these men, the experiment lasted for 40 years without the cure.  

In South Africa, the apartheid “Coast Experiment,” under “Dr. Death”  Basson was to last until 1992.  The target was the black or colored person.

 With these negatives abounding in racial sciences, how are we supposed, even for the sake of humanity, to accept a “bush meat” theory that nails “the origin of the Aids pandemic to a single source” in Central Africa?

For hundreds of years since The Black Plague of the 14^th century, the African has been chewing on “bush or game meat” without developing immunity, yet there was no Ebola or HIV/Aids virus.   Suddenly and since 1920, it is this same diet that is killing him and now is entirely responsible for the existence of the HIV/AIDS virus in the world.

This is just not right.  Something else must have happened.  Scientists must continue the research to find and be honest about the causes of these dreadful diseases for the sake of humanity and not just blame it all on Africa.

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher,  www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, October 06, 2014

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