Well for the sake of millions of people world wide, there is some actual truth and validity to this story. I had a family member to die as a repercussion of HIV many years back. One of the first people I ever even heard of having it. He was a Vietnam Vet. After many years of researching and reading different variations of stories of how HIV came about, I personally believe that the way most of the worlds population believe it started, is a complete farce. From the things a relative of mine experienced with the military in dealing with it, things that she was told by doctors over 30 years ago, I have very little doubt that this doctor was telling her the truth about where and how it started and it wasn't that monkey story either.