Tuesday, December 8, 2009

How did the HIV/AIDS virus really start

How did the HIV/AIDS virus really start?

Infectious Diseases - 10 Answers
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America had discoverable AIDS cases as far back as the 1950's, but it didn't reach total epidemic status until the late 1970's early 1980's. This film brings that information out. It also brings out the information that this disease, although concentrated in the gay community, had no specific target, anyone could/would get it. The people in my life were not all homosexual who contracted the disease but a few were just receivers of blood transfusions. At the time they received the blood, the test was not developed for screening. Just like the film points out, they too (family, friends, associates) suffered.
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That's a million dollar question. No-one knows. There's speculation about it being a man made virus, originating from apes in Africa, a mutation of another virus but that's all it is - speculation. Scientists have been trying to trace it's origins for decades but without success.
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it was either in Africa or in India and i think aids started because they would eat i think green monkeys ( that's the breed ) without draining the blood but go to answers.com they have a lot of information about almost anything you could think of
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This one guy in Africa started it. He had sex with a monkey THIS IS NOT A JOKE so after that he must of spread it to different girls and they gave it to other people.
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When you don't know a people and have unsafe sex with him or her, if he is a AIDS carrier than you are bound to have AIDS. Carrier means a person already infected with AIDS virus. Unsafe sex means sex without condom.
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From what I read....it is found in certain species of monkey but does cause them any harm. There is a lot of speculations, how it jumped from the monkey to the human species?
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someone fucked a monkey in africa with aids and then fucked a person and whammy everyone is dying. who fucks monkeys anyway?
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There is a virus related to HIV that is called SIV, that is simian immunodeficiency virus. SIV appears to be the precursor to HIV, and SIV is endemic to the Congo. Like Ebola, it was hidden in the jungle for many years. The first known cases ("slim sickness") are in the 1930s in Africa; there were cases identified later as AIDS in the 1950s and it was soon afterward that the virus arrived in Haiti. While "And The Band Played On" is a good read, there are some doubts as to its strict accuracy. Gaetan Dugas, for example, only seems to exist in documents that cite the book.
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Scientists have found HIV's ancestor viruses in some monkeys in Africa. It was probably transferred to humans when they ate the meat of chimpanzees. This is pretty certain because genetic analysis of the virus has discovered that its closest relative was in chimps. It got into humans in the early 1930's, but didn't become a "mainstream" virus until the early 80's.
10 :
One theory is that one strain of AIDS comes from the Green Monkey found in Africa. Scientists are not quiet sure how the virus was transported to humans though. HIV/AIDS was not heard of until it was discovered in homosexual men in America.

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