2006-08-19 15:07:41 · 11 answers · asked by highthoughts 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
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.
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.
Check out these sites for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin#Spread_from_animal_to_human_populations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin#History_of_known_cases_and_spread
2006-08-21 09:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that AIDS was first discovered in 1965 although they didn't have the name for it yet. It was named in 1981. Supposedly a man in africa shot a monkey and some of the infected blood got onto him. Another story is that he ate the monkey and he got infected. AIDS isn't harmful to monkeys so they didn't know the monkey was sick but then they found out that the human was sick with this disease. Back then, they didn't know what this disease was. They thought it was some sort of flu. I have never heard of anyone having sex with monkey's so I wouldn't believe that if I were you. I saw all of this information on a Tv show. I can't remember what the show was though. If you are unsure of the information, you can always google it and see for yourself. This information is not 100% because they weren't there when it happened but they are pretty sure that this is how this disease actually came around.
2006-08-19 22:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by usa_grl15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it was traced back to Africa . Africans males were having sex with apes . This had been going on probably as long as arabs and jews of the middle east had been having sex with sheep . The african created virus went to Haiti no telling how long ago and back in the '80's a gay airlines flight attendent had sex with a haitian that had aids and when he went back to work his flight route was to canada . When his flight ended there he went to a hotel and had sex with a canadian flight attendent and his route took him to the united states and he gave the first case of HIV to an american citizen and the rest is history . Just so you know I'm not trying to be a mean old racist , the boys in the U.S.A. that were raised on farms down in the south where I was raised , well a lot of them talked about having sex with cows while the cow was locked up in his stall . I have herd others in alabama talking about having sex with a mule and the mule defecated in there overalls. Anyway that is how aids came to America . Read it and weep . Life is stranger than fiction .
2006-08-19 22:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by visayan95 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm first off aids can only come from another human. So that is a myth. But there is a website that you can go to called friendstogether.org this a great way to get the truth!
2006-08-19 22:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by footballrocks 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, i have actually heard this from someone who was telling me this seriously. AIDS we was mutated virus that a primate had, and some of the other primates contracted it. Now, some African tribe caught a primate that had it, and after they ate it, they got it, and then humanity took place and it spread. As for how recent it is, i really don't know.
2006-08-19 22:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by dudeonfire23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aids is the symptoms of HIV virus infection if i`m not mistaken. the virus has been around for a very long time. experiments in africa by cia and infected monkeys led to the disease in humans. why they infected humans is the big mystery. you can research British newpaper articles that tell this story
2006-08-19 22:16:28 · answer #6 · answered by curious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It came around in the 70's from hunters in Africa when these men were hunting they hunted a champenzee and the blood was infected and the hunters was first diagnosed with HIV-1
2006-08-23 16:57:56 · answer #7 · answered by babygirlhollaataplaya2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It came from a group of moneys in Africa they eventually got immune to it then some how they got AIDS from them so that was how the story was told.
2006-08-19 22:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by Tony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aids has been around for about 25/30 yrs now, and it first came from a guy who f***ed a monkey in africa
2006-08-19 22:12:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans ate monkeys that were infected. Crazy chikz, you're full of s#!t about being a Doctor!
2006-08-20 11:30:20 · answer #10 · answered by sao6785 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋