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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by jcranmer on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:04PM (#34952103)
AIDS is caused by HIV, which is believed to have evolved from a virus infecting primates in Africa (probably more specific details than that exist, but I don't know them offhand).

Bubonic plague and polio both predate the existence of writing, and may well predate even agriculture.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by lovemenot on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:19PM (#34952179)
HIV has at least one similarly plausible but unprovable origin story - concerning the unintended consequences of polio vaccination in the 1950s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935079/

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by selimthegrim on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:36PM (#34952280)
This has been disproven pretty thoroughly IIRC
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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by paiute on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:32PM (#34952259)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_polio_vaccine_AIDS_hypo...
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