Nathan Wolfe

Many people die from a sickness called HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This is a sexually transmitted sickness for the most part. There is yet a cure for this sickness but doctors have come up with medicine that will help you live with it as long as possible.

This disease was started in 1929 in Congo, Africa when a group of hunters set out to bush hung for primates to feed their families. In class we watched a video about a scientist by the name of Nathan Wolfe. He is trying to figure out what animals carry this disease and is also trying to monitor viruses so they stay away from the human race. Wolfe personally went on a bush hunt to collect samples of blood to check for zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic diseases are diseases caused by infections that can be transmitted between animals and humans. We hope as a world that we will someday find a cure to all these diseases that are life threatening, especially HIV.

Before I watched this movie I had no idea how HIV had actually started. I had never really thought about it. I’m glad I know how it started but I also think that there are other ways to take care of your family without threatening the life of the hunter and spreading it throughout the world. Such as hunting for animals we know for a fact don’t have diseases and aren’t endangered species.

Chimp's Article Summary

After a ten-year hiatus there is questioning and debate whether a certain group of chimpanzees should really be sent back to a labratory after such a long break in a retirement home in Alamagordo New Mexico. Questions such as these come up in discussion: Should testing really be allowed on chimpanzees when we wouldn't risk it on ourselbes and haven't these specific chimps already donated enough time and years to this lab?
A specific group of Chimps are being sent back to the lab after a decade of being at a retirement home in Alamagordo. The governer of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, is going to put up a fight agains the National Institutes of Health which would prevent them from going back to the lab. They want to test on these chimpanzees because they think it would be better to risk a cimp than a human.
The reaction I have to this article would be that these specific chimpanzees have already done their time in the lab and do not deserve to go back. I personaly think that they should stay where they are permanently.