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From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> If humans wished to engage in this form of natural selection, where 98% of
> the population would succumb to the effects of AIDS, each succeeding
> generation would survive at greater numbers so that within 10 or 20
> generations, humans too would be immune to HIV, or have reduced its
effects
> to little more than a one more childhood disease.
>
This may be what is happening in parts of Africa though not as extremely and
therefore more slowly.

Nick D.