Where did the aids virus start?!
Question: is it true that ut started from chimpanzees? or something
Answers: is it true that ut started from chimpanzees? or something
Its true! Apparently the virus was tracked down all the way to some type of monkey that was hunted in Africa by the native peoples. The native people that had cuts on their hands and were unaware that the animals had this disease at the time. When they skinned the animals and cut them up, some of the animal blood got in contact with their cuts and wounds on their hands. Blood is one of the 4 ways the virus that causes aids (HIV) is spread. The native peoples continued to spread the disease unknowingly for many years through blood, vaginal fluids, sperm, and breast milk. The disease eventually made its way all over the world and became a national epidemic of this incurable virus. Today over 6 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV or AIDS. 1 in 4 dont even know that they have it.
I hope i cleared things up for you....
~maddy~
yup
it started in Africa
Supposedly it came after a human, from Africa, had either had intercourse with an ape or was raped by an ape
But that is one of the theories of where it had originated from.
Aids been track to Africa, the black tribes males had intercourse with chimpanzees and then they spread it through out the world as they move out and about the country. Then one gave it to two and two to four and so on. The first recorded case of aids was a black male in his 20's back in 1960 who came to the usa on a student visa then became sick. Doctors not knowing at that time what it was sent him home with normal meds. He is known as patient 0.
This question seems to attract more made-up completely non -factual answers than just about any other on Yahoo.
For example, jdavisauto quotes an alleged book by someone called Kenneth Scott who claimed to be Director of the CDC between 1972 and 1995.
A quick search of the CDC website makes it obvious no such person existed. The book, if it exists, is an obvious fake.
http://www.cdc.gov/about/history/pastdir...
Yes, HIV-1 appears to have existed in chimpanzees in West Africa before it infected humans. There is a second but rarer HIV called HIV-2 which originated in a monkey called the sooty mangabey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin
The exact mode of transmission from non-human primate to human is unknown, but sexual transmission is unlikely. Neither species mates with humans. However, both are hunted for food, and transmission through bites or during an accident while butchering are quite possible.
Oh, and thumbs up to Maddy.
by eating the freshly killed brain of the african green monkey wich harbors the HIV. it doesn't affect them the way it does humans.
the other correct theory is that the united states goverment tried to develope a vaccine- they tested it on those in africa where disease ran rampant. the vaccine backfired.
i would suppose sexual intercourse could happen between man and ape, but not all certainly aren't going to do that, the chances of HIV coming from that theory stopped a while back.
Listen to this:
There was recently a 3-hour long documentary that basically summed up the start of the virus as this:
the polio vaccine involved usage of parts of the monkey, what they were, I am not clear. The U.S. government first introduced the polio vaccine into Africa...Now the monkeys were infected and the government didn't find out until much later when the disease had spread. So basically IT WAS IN FACT started in a laboratory, although probably not intentionally.
It started in Africa when a polio vaccine developed that was contaminated with the HIV virus. The vaccine contained contaminated chimp body parts like kidneys. There is actually some debate on whether this was done on purpose to keep "the black man down" just like the introduction of crack cocaine, but that is another story.... Anyways, that is how it it passed to humans. Originally the virus was only able to infect primates but because of the HIGH mutation rate of this virus, it was able to infect humans. This is one of the MANY reasons why its so hard to create a vaccine against it!
it started by a guy having intercourse with a chimp or a monkey or somthing