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AIDS is an epidemic in Africa, which has led to widespread speculation about people’s sexual practices there. But it turns out that it’s race that makes them so vulnerable to this disease!

A gene which evolved to protect people from Malaria increases their vulnerability to HIV by 40%. BBC News quotes researcher Robin Weiss as saying, “The big message here is that something that protected against malaria in the past is now leaving the host more susceptible to HIV.”

BBC quotes AIDS activist Ade Fakoya as saying, “There has always been this myth that people in sub-Saharan Africa were more likely to get HIV because of differences in their sexual behavior, or that they are more promiscuous. This shows that it’s not that simple…”
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The badly damaged carcass of a creature that appears to have a toothed beak has washed up at Montauk, across from the US Government’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

There has been speculation that the animal is a decomposed sea turtle, but their beaks do not have teeth, and the turtle’s shell is attached along the spine, and this creature shows no damage to the spine.

There are said to be photographs suggesting that the animalis a decomposed pit bull, and that the distortions in the jaw are the result of water action, and only appear to be a beak.
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Wonder why gas prices are so high? ExxonMobil has reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion, the largest quarterly profit ever by any American corporation.
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Here at Unknowncountry, we have always suspected that a single US government scientist was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks. Now, facing arrest and a possible death penalty, a microbiologist who helped the FBI INVESTIGATE the anthrax deaths has killed himself with an overdose of painkillers.

According to BBC News, the anthrax tainted mail was sent to legislators in Washington and media offices in New York and Florida. Those killed were two postal workers in Washington, a New York hospital worker, a Florida photo editor and an elderly woman in Connecticut. The incidents took place shortly after the 911 attacks.

Art credit: freeimages.co.uk
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