How AIDS started..?

Question

How AIDS started and when...

Answer 1

It is guessed that it was a monkey virus that jumped to humans in the 1940s

http://www.avert.org/origins.htm

Answer 2

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.[102] 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 3

What a great question. Your question has fostered many conferences, studies, and research papers since HIV or AIDS emerged as a new disease in 1981. HIV is part of a group of viruses called lentiviruses. It is believed to originated in Africa sometime between late 1940 and early 1950. It is thought to have evolved from the simian monkey. Some think that infected monkeys were used to make vaccines. Others think it started when a hunter cut himself while cleaning a dead infected monkey. Regardless the vehicle, it took blood contamination to move from animal to man.

Answer 4

It may have been coincidence that Ronald Regan had just come to power and the right had been v. concerned for years that homosexuals and drug users were getting out of control; there was also great concern that Africa was going to become a huge burden for the world if birth control could not be introduced. I remember a famous Oxford biologist at the time stating that it was not a natural disease and could only have come about through genetic manipulation, after all no virus had ever mutated to kill all of it's hosts because that would be self defeating for the virus and viruses aren't suicidal they always keep some hosts alive as carriers. Made sense to me at the time and has not been much debated since.

Answer 5

AIDS started as a disease in monkeys in Africa. It is amazing, but when it first started the researchers found the man who statted it in humans. Yes, he or a sexual partner he was with had sex with a monkey. This first man who started to spread the disease was an airline attendent who flew all over the world. He was very active sexually as a gay. The researchers traced back every first diagnoised AIDS patient back to that man, either the men had been sexual with him or had been with someone who had sex with a resent partner of this guy. Spookie isn't it?
HIV means a person has the virus in their body. AIDS is when the virus becomes active in a person.
It was in 1980 when a handfull of men where diagnoised with some sort of disease, It wasn't until the mid 80's when the viruse itself we identified and was named.
Can you see how one person did something wrong and how quickly his activity (sex with a monkey) affected not only himself but now millions of people across the entire planet. ?

Answer 6

The AIDS epidemic was discovered June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.[96] Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not homosexual men. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome.

Three of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:

A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.[97]
HIV found in tissue samples from a 15 year old Africa-American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.[98]
HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.

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 7

the rumor is more like people in Africa began "raping" monkeys and chimps in the continent, believing the DNA difference wouldn't matter. However, these animals had a disease that is similar to AIDS. When humans contracted this disease, it transformed into what we know as AIDS today. It then spread from person to person and then country to country. In America, the gay community was targeted as the biggest spreader of the disease since the death rate from AIDS was the highest. It became known as "The Gay Disease" or something like that. Eventually, it was learned that AIDS doesn't discriminate, and spread to anyone who was HIV-positive and having unprotected sex with others. Today, it is now prevalent in every country with its highest rate in Africa.

Try the center for disease control website if you wanna know more.

Answer 8

In some parts of the world, HIV is spread almost exclusively through heterosexual contact. Gay/bisexual men don't even seem to enter into the equation in such places. If the disease had entered the western world in the straight population first, would people think it was a straight disease caused by heterosexual sex? Did it come from monkeys? I doubt it. There is a simian AIDS virus (SIV), but there is also a Feline AIDS virus (FIV). Has someone been sleeping with Garfield or something?

Answer 9

Well first of all, you're an idiot if you think a man had sex with a monkey.

AIDS and HIV can be transmitted many other ways other than sex.

For instance, many cultures eat monkeys...

Sometimes the raw monkey brains, or undercooked monkey meat.

This alone could cause aids.




Oh yeah but having sex with a monkey, yeah sure. That's the idiot's answer.

Answer 10

the reason the aids virus cannot be stopped, is because its always changing in the body and can "switch" species liek bird flu
it probly started with monkeys or cats (cats can get the FIV virus)
maybe by a blood transfusion

Answer 11

"The epidemic did not begin in Africa the first AIDS cases were uncovered in homosexual men from Manhatton in 1979 at that time there were no reported African cases. In fact the AIDS epidemic in Africa did not begin until the autum of 1982."see source below..