Where exactly did AIDS start?

Question

I've heard so many stories about where AIDS came from. The one I think might be true is that people took a vaccine contain strains of the virus from a chimp, because its the only one that doesn't sound like a "I blame gays or Africans" type deal. Does the scientific community have a generally agreed upon theory concerning AIDS?

In Nigeria, an old cure for whooping cough was monkey brain, which did work to stop the cough. They did not eat monkeys regularly, though, because they are difficult to catch. In Africa, bestiality is highly taboo. I doubt someone slept with a monkey and lived to tell the tale.

Answer 1

Site below has a good overview of the theories. Leading possibility is that a simian virus (that effects monkeys) crossed species and infected humans. It wasn't in a vaccine. It probably infected humans when they were exposed to monkey blood.

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Answer 2

The virus that causes AIDS, bears a close resemblance to a virus that infects chimpanzees in Central Africa. There are a large number of theories as to how HIV arose but current thinking is that hunting tribes that routinely trapped and killed chimps infected with SIV (or a close variant) became infected while preparing the meat from these animals. Once into the human, one of the viruses underwent enough of a mutation to make it able to move readily from human to human during sexual acts and to cause the effects that we now know as AIDS.

Answer 3

The answer given by "gene guy" was the one that I would give. That was the theory, the last time I heard anything. Viruses and bacterias do mutate, and some tribes in Africa do eat monkeys, so this is the one that makes the most sense. In my opinion, he should get the best answer.

Answer 4

AIDS was found in a Monkey in Africa. An African was bitten by the Monkey carrying the virus and transffered it. The African never knew that is was carrying a deadly virus that would eventually contaminate the entire world, but here's the real question, population control???

Answer 5

i don't believe some of us are not current. After the experiments carried out by an indian scientist in th 90's he proved the dna of AIDS virus and that of the so called green african monkey had a totally different structure and went ahead to prove that AIDS couldn't have existed anywhere in nature and was created in a Larboratory.

Answer 6

it is upsetting blaming Gays/Africans

i mean, do they reckon that the gay Africans created it in a lab

the one that i like the best is scientists were getting lonely and slept with monkeys.....u think there was any true love

anyway....yes, i think it was the vaccine/chimp theory that i honestly believe may be true

Answer 7

AIDS was a manufactured bio-terror virus, made by the US government during the 1960's. The documents showing this were declassified some years ago. The United States government has long since introduced lab grown viruses to the unsuspecting human population through vaccines, under the guise of "wiping out disease", meanwhile they're infecting millions of people worldwide in their barbaric experiments.

Answer 8

Good question.I think there is still not really a generally accepted upon theory but found this site that is quiet interesting.

Is there any hesitation to click the link?:)

Answer 9

i ehard it came from monkeys and that the infected monkey bit someone and from there it gets kind of funny sounding but thats all i know

Answer 10

I heard some story as many as you and all of them is possible but I don't know what is happened