how did AIDS come to exist... What is the theory of how it spread across the USA in its early days???

Answer 1

i have read some theories based on research. they are pretty sure it started with monkeys in africa and the virus mutated so it was able to infect humans. since it spreads from human to human through blood exchange and sexual fluids, in Africa it started spreading through sexual contact. Gay male sexual contact tends to be more dangerous as it can cause ruptures in the lining of the rectum through which the semen can infect the blood. One theory showed a relationship between African workers taking the virus back to Haiti, and in the 70's or so, Haiti was a popular vacation place for American gay men, due to tropical climate and very relaxed attitude toward some of the native men toward gay sex for pay. please folks, i didn't make this up. it's not my opinion. i really read a few articles on this in respectable magazines, so don't get mad at me!! so vacationing gay men went to Haiti and got infected and brought it back, and proceeded to have unprotected sex with multiple partners since they didn't know about the danger at the time until it had already spread like crazy...it takes sometimes years for symptoms so a lot of damage was done before the warnings came out to the public.

Answer 2

somewhere in africa where there used to be no roads a small population had aids but somehow it was controlled because there was no way of people getting to another place if they had to walk a long one but then they made a road and so it started spreading around and scientist conducted an experiment in a forest where they captured every single living organism in a cave on the foot of mt. kitum but did not found the source of aid but only found it on a monkey. aids is a monkey disease which spread to humans

Answer 3

I read somewhere that it was initially contracted by humans in Africa, where infected primates were consumed, thereby spreading the disease to man. I think the early accounts and rumours that gay men were engaging in intercourse with said primates were nothing more than a vicious smear campaign.

Answer 4

i heard it was from a male gay flight attendant who went overseas to africa(not sure of the place) and brought it back to the usa where it spread, which is why i think homosexuals get referred to aids a lot, even though the disease can be spread through anyone.

Answer 5

It was a man made disease that was formed to kill of the African and African-American population, but oops it spread to everybody else.

Answer 6

POPULATION CONTROL; meant for homosexuals and minorities, namely blacks. Others outside these groups are casualties to them. Notice how politicians, presidents, and other high ranking freemasons don't contract the disease, perhaps because they have exclusive access to the vaccine.

Answer 7

Humans F*ck ing monkeys.

Answer 8

1978 Gay men begin having AIDS in the US and Sweden

Answer 9

HIV originated in primates as far as is known. Possible ways for this virus to have originally infected humans include the hunting and eating of the original primate species; a bite would be another possible route. From this point, the virus ultimately spread to the rest of the world.

If a cross species jump is indeed the origin of HIV then the following conditions would most likely be required:
a large human population,
a large nearby population of a host animal,
a pathogen that eventually mutates to spread from animal to human,
interaction between the species to transmit enough of it to humans to establish a human foothold, which may take millions of individual exposures,
a mutation of same pathogen that can spread from human to human,
some method that allows the pathogen to disperse widely so it does not "burn out" in a local population of humans.

Such requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu.

Two species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa.

Both species of the virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are believed to have originated in West-Central Africa and jumped species (zoonosis) from primates to humans. HIV-1 evolved from a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIVcpz) found in the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes. DNA sequencing indicates that HIV-1 (group M) entered the human population in the early 20th century, probably sometime between 1915 and 1941. HIV-2 crossed species from a different strain of SIV, this one found in sooty mangabeys (an Old World monkey) of Guinea-Bissau.

It appears that either HIV existed in very low levels in the United States in periods prior to 1981, or it may have gone extinct in the United States at times, with the present infection established in the USA about 1976. HIV in Africa likewise was at first at levels too low to be noticed. In the United States and Africa HIV was at first mostly found only in residents of large cities. The infection is now more widespread in rural areas, and has appeared in regions such as China and India, where it was previously not evident.

Author Randy Shilts mentioned that what was later called AIDS became evident in the Gay community in the Fire Island, New York area in the four years after the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. The infection tended to double in numbers about every nine to ten months. It therefore took a couple of years before a new disease was suspected because there were at first not enough symptomatic individuals to be noticed.

The earliest documented HIV-1 infection dates from 1959, and was discovered in the preserved blood sample of a man from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1969, a 15-year-old African-American male died at the St. Louis City Hospital from aggressive Kaposi's sarcoma. AIDS was suspected as early as 1984, and in 1987, researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine confirmed this, finding HIV-1 in his preserved blood and tissues. The doctors who worked on his case at the time suspected he was a male prostitute, though the patient did not discuss his sexual history with them in detail.

In 1976, a Norwegian sailor named Arvid Noe, his wife, and his nine-year-old daughter died of AIDS. The sailor had first presented symptoms in 1966, four years after he had spent time in ports along the West African coastline. Tissue samples from the sailor and his wife were tested in 1988 and found to contain the HIV-1 virus (Group O). The next documented western death from AIDS was that of Dr. Grethe Rask in 1977. Rask, a Danish surgeon, had worked in the Congo in the early 1970s.

The official date for the beginning of the AIDS epidemic is marked as June 5, 1981, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report newsletter that unusual clusters of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (formerly Pneumocystis carinii) had been discovered in gay men in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. Over the next eighteen months, more Pneumocystis jiroveci clusters were discovered among otherwise healthy men in cities throughout the country, along with other opportunistic diseases (such as Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphadenopathy), common in immunosuppressed patients.

In June 1982, a report of a group of cases amongst gay men in Southern California suggested that a sexually transmitted infectious agent might be the etiological agent and was initially termed 'GRID' (Gay Related Immune Deficiency. However, the same opportunistic infections also began to be reported among hemophiliacs, heterosexual IV drug users, and Haitian immigrants. By August 1982, the disease was being referred to by its new name, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). An anagram of AIDS, SIDA, was then created for use in French (Syndrome d'Immuno-Déficience Acquise) and Spanish (Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida).

Answer 10

a african american slept with a gorilla