AIDS Questions?!
Question: Is it true that AIDS came from primates and how did the AIDS spread? How were the first AIDS ever formed? Is it true that there is no cure for it because the virus mutates? When was the first AIDS formed? It is true that virus disable the body cells so that bacteria can affect the body to create infections?
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Answers: Is it true that AIDS came from primates and how did the AIDS spread? How were the first AIDS ever formed? Is it true that there is no cure for it because the virus mutates? When was the first AIDS formed? It is true that virus disable the body cells so that bacteria can affect the body to create infections?
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Yes, HIV originated from a similar infection of primates (simian immunodeficiency virus, SIV). [there are other similar DISTANTLY related viruses affecting other species, eg. FIV, or feline immunodeficiency virus].
SIV jumped to a human host (probably many times before it was successful) and mutated into HIV. This happened as late as a few hundred years ago or as recently as 1930 depending on the available estimates. Primates are a source of food for many people in the world and during the hunting, killing, and butchering of the animals for meat, it is quite possible that a hunter was infected through contact with a lot of primate blood. The myth of people having sex with monkeys (as the initial cause) is rooted in racism and ignorance. Can you imagine trying to have sex with a wild monkey....you may not survive.
SIV in primates does not cause disease in them and has been in certain primate populations for a VERY long time -- an ancient infection.
HIV has always been spread the same way: HIV+ Blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk leaves a persons body and enters another's
AIDS is simply the medical diagnosis given when an HIV+ person's immune system is SERIOUSLY damaged and the body is open to life-threatening complications aka Opportunistic Infections aka AIDS-defining illnesses. A person can be HIV+ and not have AIDS....but can't have AIDS and not be HIV+.
The virus mutates RAPIDLY. And makes a lot of mistakes --- it doesn't have "proof-readers" when it copies itself like we do in our bodies. These "mistakes" can do three things to the virus:
1. nothing
2. make it resistant to a medicine or just stronger in general
3. make it weaker or kill the specific virus.
HIV enters the body and attacks the "quarterback/mastermind" of our immune systems (the CD4 cell). This is the cell that tells our immune system what to do, how to do it, and where to go to do it.
That is why HIV is so adept at weakening immune systems -- it goes right for the "quarterback/mastermind". When you have an immune system that is weakening, you will be open to new infections and old infections you may have had that your immune system WAS keeping in check.
The lower the CD4 count (immune system blood test), the more lifethreatening infections are possible.
http://www.aids.org/factSheets/101-what-...
I dont know where aids originate from but I do know that you need to catch HIV and then if u dont take care of urself it turns into AIDS which attacks ur immune system and causes someone to catch illnesses so no one dies from aids but from the virus or illness they catch.