There were fewer than ten published references to Burma Myanmar at the recently concluded International AIDS Conference in Mexico. … Regular readers know how flippant [him] is about HIV genetic studies. He thinks most HIV phylogeneticists are wankers. And the findings are used to try to point to the place where HIV “came from”. HIV almost invariably came from somewhere else that it is convenient to blame. … Now they report that HIV *possibly* entered the Middle Kingdom from Burma in the year of the US Bicentennial.