getting HIV/AIDs?

Question

ok, a friend asked me this and i didn't know, so i decided to ask here... can you be born with it if your parents dont have it? i dont think so but i dont know for sure... also, how did aids come about (if that is even known), like how was it "created"?

Answer 1

You can't be born with a STD if your parents do not have it. An STD is not genetic. It is only spread if the mother passes it to her baby, having sex with an infected person, sharing needles with an infected person, etc. It doesn't just "appear".

HIV was not started or "created" by a guy screwing a monkey. That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard, and people actually believe it!

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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin#Spread_from_animal_to_human_populations

Answer 2

You can't be born with it when you don't have HIV positive parents.
AIDS came about when a man had AIDS. He didn't know it as it didn't exist back then. He was a playboy bachelor. His AIDS was hidden, not active. When it is not active, you won't know its there unless you do a checkup. This was no fault of his for doctors wouldn't even know what to checkup for. So he continued to have sex. And he did so with many many women. All these women got AIDS and it was active. They in turn passed it on to other men and thus AIDS was spreading fast.

Answer 3

There are many theories about how AIDS was "created" or came to be. This website describes many of them: http://www.avert.org/origins.htm.

No, a baby can NOT be born w/AIDS if the mother does not have HIV or AIDS. (See info below from http://kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/stds/AIDS.html)

The human immunodeficiency virus known as HIV causes AIDS by infecting and damaging part of the body's defenses against infection. The only known way for the HIV virus to be transmitted from one person to another is when it is spread from the inside of an infected person's body to the inside of another person's body. This can happen when infected fluids - such as semen (also known as "***," the fluid released from the penis when a male ejaculates), vaginal fluids, or blood - are passed from one person to another. A person can become infected even if only tiny amounts of these fluids are spread.

A newborn baby is at risk of getting the HIV virus from his or her mother if she is infected. This can happen before the baby is born, during birth, or through breastfeeding. Pregnant teens and women should be tested for HIV because infected women who receive treatment for HIV are much less likely to spread the virus to their babies. Babies born to mothers infected with HIV are also given special medicines to try to prevent HIV infection.

Answer 4

It came through african monkey when it had sex with human being, and it went on when the human beings had sex with each other.The HIV Virus is friendly with monkey's body but not with humans body. That is the reason how the aids virus spread in human beings. So better to avoid sex with unknown human being than to regret after having Aids.

Answer 5

It's not a genetic defect,if your mother doesn't have it you won't either.
The current guess is someone got it from a monkey in Africa. Nobody's assuming someone had sex with a monkey, but maybe someone ate one or got attacked by one and somehow got the virus into their bloodstream. It's pretty difficult to pinpoint exactly where it came from.

Answer 6

I think it is assumed HIV/AIDS came from men having sex with sheep.

I think some children born of parents do get the disease

Answer 7

No, you can't get it from parents that don't have it.

It was created when someone decided that a monkey in africa looked like a suitable girlfriend. And my mom gets mad when i bring home a black girl... Go figure.

Answer 8

If neither parent has it then you won't have it. It came from a certin kind of mok=nkey from like the congo or somewhere over there in africa

Answer 9

No you can't be born with it unless your parents have it. However, later in life you can get it even if your parents don't have it.

Answer 10

nope

some sick weirdos started f***ing monkeys a long time ago. Now aids is everywhere. my father told me this, I hope it isn't true