Monday, January 12, 2009

How can you get HIV/AIDS other then human-human transmission

How can you get HIV/AIDS other then human-human transmission?
I know that you can get HIV/AIDS from other people but how did this first happen? How do they hypothesize the first human got it? You can't get it from someone without it.. right? What else can give it to you? I have heard that humans might have got it from monkeys. Monkeys spit at you and you ingest it.. you know what happens.
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It is a proven fact that it was a virus that affected apes, it then mutated and jumped from apes to humans. It was probably first transmitted from apes bites, scratches etc. It's hard to say who the first person was because the disease was ignored for a while before it was finally given a name. Also since ti was first passed on in remote areas it was hidden at first until it was wide spread. It's turned into such a pandemic because of false information in the 80's. At first it was only advertised as a disease for blacks/gays/drug addicts because governments didn't listen to the medical industry. So people who had it without knowing were constantly passing it on. Now the problem is also false information, there are enough people on YA who think you can get it just by touching someone. And the fact that the most highly infected areas such as Africa don't have access to proper medical treatment, condoms, or also information. The health administer for Africa tells it's people that garlic and onions prevent HIV. You can only get it through blood or vaginal secret/semen contact or through mother milk/birth/HIV infected mother during pregnancy. Saliva does not contain the virus. So through needles, blood transfusions in less developed parts of the world and unprotected sex are your only problems. No it doesn't come from no where, a person has to have HIV to pass it on.
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The origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine programme being blamed. So what is the truth? Just where did AIDS come from? Find Out Here : http://www.avert.org/origin-aids-hiv.htm
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In many countries they eat apes for food. It's very possible to get scratched and then blood into your wound when hunting with a knife against an ape, they're 5 times stronger than humans. Wendy

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