Is it true that AIDS got started because some man contracted while having sex with a monkey??

Question

That's what i keep hearing!!

Answer 1

No, it's not true. They traced it back just a couple weeks ago actually to a specific species of Monkey in Africa. Where the monkey dwells was on a river line, and they think either the dead the handler got cut by the monkey or got some blood while eating it etc. It was called SIDs at the time I think(SIMIAN) It then mutated to a human form just like Bird Flu is doing, no one had sex with a bird. They can trace the outbreak from up the river directly to the bottom of the river.

They have frozen blood samples from I think the 1950's which is the first confirmed case of AIDS, although they didn't know it at the time. They can now track the entire course of the epidemic.

"Scientists Confirm AIDS Originated in Wild African Chimpanzees"

Answer 2

There are some theories that the original transmission of AIDS was primate-to-human.

AIDS will probably never be traced to its immediate source, but scientists now know that the disease is native to the central African nations of Zaire, Burundi, Ugandi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya, and that there is a species of monkey that abounds in that region, called the African "green", which carries a virus very similar in structure to that of the AIDS virus and in the very blood cells that AIDS prefers.

These monkeys do not react to the disease as humans and other primates do, probably because they have developed a built-in protection against it. Because of this, they may have been carrying the virus long before it became known to humans. The natives often sell the monkeys and sometimes eat their flesh. It is very probable that bites and scratches from the monkeys started the infection in man.

Answer 3

I don't know, I've heard the same theory for years, supposedly an african tribesman had sex with a monkey and developed the 1st strains of HIV. The monkey in question was of a variety that had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. There's a lot of similaritys between human aids and the type of autoimmune disease this genre of monkey has.
Honestly tho, I think the whole theory about an african tribesman having sex with a monkey thus starting aids was invented by a racist group to further their own warped agenda.

Answer 4

The closest answer here is monkey brains. It's actually from monkey meat in general. This is known as bushmeat in africa. Scientists are almost entirely positive that hiv originated with people eating infected bushmeat.

You can't get hiv from a bite or scratch unless the monkey had bleeding gums or fingers.

Answer 5

Nobody knows for certain, but the most widely accepted theory is that hunters who killed/ate chimpanzees were the ones initially infected -- NOT from having sex. See the link below.

Answer 6

No truth what so ever to that statement. According to new research the transmission from apes to humans came about when the hunters killed and cut up the meat.

Answer 7

though it is a fact that aids was initially an ape disease and it jumped the species. it was first found among the chimps in central africa in 70s and it is believed that when local tribal people consumed meat of infected apes, they got the ailment.

Answer 8

no thats not true.

its thought that HIV may have mutated from SIV (the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) a disease african monkeys carry, but its highly improbable that it crossed the specise barrier via sexual intercourse, it more likely happened when the monkeys were used for food.

Answer 9

no it wasn't....i can't remember how, our physics teacher told us one day...oh wait, i think (not 100% sure) it might have been through blood, the person might have had a cut or something and was handling monkeys for research or something and got that in, and this guy happened to be gay and yeah....i think thats how it went

Answer 10

From eating undercooked monkey.