The U.S. has an AIDS rate more than seven times that of the rest of the First World. If you just want to look locally, we now have more than 10,000 cases in Houston, that is more than Canada, which has over 10 times the population of Houston. These are World Health Organization figures. Good prima facie evidence that the AIDS epidemic is behaving quite differently in the United States than it is in the rest of the First World. It is much more prevalent here than it is in the rest of the First World.
Some people say Zaire, some people say Haiti.
In my opinion, country zero is the United States, because you can find all sorts of instances where the disease has been vectored into, say, European cities by people who got the disease in the United States. Your research showed that the bathhouses were the focal points for the transmission of the disease in the United States. It's about 40 percent. Once you get past 40 percent, once the gay male population has an HIV incidence of more than 40 percent, closing the bathhouses probably would have only marginal utility. And of course HIV positivity amongst the gays in several communities is already past 40 percent.