Is AIDS man made ?

Question

just wanna know the origins of deadly AIDS

Answer 1

AIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. It was transferred to humans by a similar route as some classic Old World infectious diseases. The ancient Old World was the incubator of many diseases like smallpox because it had large human populations in close association with large animal populations, especially those that lived in herds or social groups.

Answer 2

No it's not man-made. AIDS is transmitted by a virus known as HIV. Viruses mutate [change] every so often. In 1979, a professor of mine was lecturing on viral replication and mutation, and he told us that every 15 or 20 years, a new virus is discovered. He said that the last virus epidemic was the influenza virus and that we were due to something new, and that maybe something was lurking. Well, he couldn't have been more right. Just at that time, the first patients of AIDS were dying and the docs did not know what was causing this.

Viruses are very resilient and have the characteristic to change their capsules and their genetic properties, thus changing and becoming immune to antibiotics.

About 20 years after the AIDS virus appeared, we have a new interesting critter: The Bird Flu virus. See the pattern here? What will come around next? What will be lethal as HIV and contagious as Bird Flu...only airborne? Scared yet? I would be!
AIDS is not man created, just man propagated.

Answer 3

Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century; it is now a pandemic, with an estimated 38.6 million people now living with the disease worldwide. As of January 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on December 1, 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.

Although a variety of theories exist explaining the transfer of HIV to humans, there is no widely accepted scientific consensus of any single hypothesis and the topic remains controversial. Freelance journalist Tom Curtis discussed one currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article. He put forward what is now known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis, which suggests that AIDS was inadvertently caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article motivated another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to probe more deeply into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) crossed into humans to become HIV, thus starting the human AIDS pandemic.

Answer 4

AIDS is not man made. AIDS is caused by the virus HIV. AIDS originated in West Africa. Viruses are constantly evolving. The Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) mutated from the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) that naturally infects the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). This particular mutation allowed the SIV virus to now be able to infect humans, and in the process change or mutate into HIV which causes AIDS. Basically, the SIV viruses mutated into the HIV viruses that now were capable of infecting humans. The human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) mutated from the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus that naturally infects the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) and mutated or changed so the virus was able to now infect humans with HIV. Viruses are able to mutate or change in order to infect new species that are not their normal hosts. Scientists think people became infected with SIV and HIV by eating the meat of chimps and monkeys. In the early 1980's HIV was first identified as the cause of AIDS. It is estimated that SIV first mutated into HIV in the 1930's. More than forty million people world wide are infected with HIV and AIDS is considered many many scientists to be a global pandemic.

Answer 5

I read in a magazine that it was transferred from a monkey to a man. These monkeys have AIDS but does not cause them to be terminally ill. Some guy ate a monkey that had it and it was then transferred into him but in us humans can cause more damage. He passed it to someone over there in Congo, then someone traveling from Congo came to America and gave it to people here. But I don't know who gave it to the monkeys!

Answer 6

The AIDS came from coloreds in Africa having sex with wild monkeys in the trees. FACT!!!

Answer 7

I say yeah cause it started out with bad blood tranfussions. If your parents have it when your born then its not man-made its genetic.

Answer 8

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-2-2004-62421.asp

Answer 9

It originated in Africa. (That figures). And it had something to do with a human male and a monkey, and this virus mutated. It isn't something gay people started!

Answer 10

your asking that question in the wrong place to find out the REAL answer