Where did AIDS originate?

Answer 1

The consensus seemed to be that a monkey virus (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) mutated into Human Immunodeficiency Virus in central Africa maybe as early as the 50's.

The conspiracy issue regarding HIV as a weapon system seems unlikely as the world's scientists were only getting a good handle on molecular biology about the time the very earliest HIV case likely occurred. I love a good conspiracy theory, but in this case, I don't believe HIV was engineered as a weapon, at least originally. Its possible some evil people deliberately accelerated the spread--definitely Patient Zero {Gaeton Dugas?} was admittedly an angry man and intentionally infected other guys as often as he could. It is interesting to contemplate how things might have gone differently if Pt Zero had been taken into custody. "And the Band Played On" is a really good account of the history of the AIDS epidemic and its terrible mishandling.

Answer 2

United States of America

Answer 3

The people who are trying to refute that the goverment, or at least the "Black World" (Illuminati, Masons etc) had no part in the creation of AIDS or HIV are sadly missing one point. The Goverment has technology far beyond our comprehension. The technology we have today has been in their possesion for at least 50 years before we actualy get to see it.

For example lets look at a similar problem, Cancer.

The "Black World" has for years been developing geneticaly alterted food through its proxy corporation Monsanto. They have created cancer as a 'back door' to input genetic material foreign to the plant (Corn, Soybeans, & Potatos). There for all of the geneticly modified food we eat has cancer latent inside its genetic coding. So in short they have created cancer as a tool to geneticaly alter food crops, and since it has become more prevalent so has the increase in cancer. In Great Britain they require all GM (Geneticaly Modified) food be labeled as such. They also have a cure in Germany now for cancer. Do we hear about it in the states? If you look up the Directors and Chairs in the Monsanto Corp you will find quite a few familar names from the cabinets of the last administrations.

To think that a group that is sinister enough to, conduct 'false flag' operations like 9/11, and geneticaly modify our food so as it gives us cancer could be incapable of such an act, you should probaly think again.

Answer 4

It was a lab-grown biological weapon, made in these United States in the 1960's, with the purposes of ridding the earth of unwated populations (mainly Africans), where it was then spread under vaccination programs in the 1970's. Most of the documents detailing this have been declassified for some time. The idea that it originated with monkeys or homosexuals is a MYTH, myths that have been debunked for well over a decade.

Answer 5

Apparently africa. I dont know if its true or not but, i read an article talking about how the AIDS virus was found in african monkeys. Africans apparently eat a certain species of monkeys and thats how they got infected with the virus.

Answer 6

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

1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2. HIV found in tissue samples from a 15 year old African-American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.

3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.


HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin!
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1. The origin of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee found in southern Cameroon.
2. HIV-2 originated from the Sooty Mangabey, an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon.

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.

Answer 7

The Scientific Medical Community would LOVE us to all believe in "The Monkey Story"
wich has been investigated Thouroughly throughout the 25 years of the AIDS Pandemic.
Truth is IF said "Monkeys" carried this virus for 75 years then why did we humans just start getting it in the 1960's? Heres why:

In 1961 The U.S.Government Military asked an as yet "unamed" Bethesda MD laboratory to design a "supervirus". a Virus that could be introduced insidiously into an Enemy's Population and thus kill them untraced from within.
Retroviruses were a key target as there was no known Cure for any of the "Known Retroviruses" at that current point in time.(there still isn't)
The lab took Feline Lukemia virus-1(later named HTLV-2) and combined it with Simian(Monkey) Lukemia Virus-2. They now needed human subjects to test it on so they targeted Male Homosexual Prisoners serving short term sentances for crimes of Homosexuality at Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary.
marketing it(calling It) a new experimental Hepatitis-B Vaccine(REMEMBER That?)..they injected these Prisoners..and waited..and waited...The Military was expecting these men to become ill very rapidly and die. to which if they did, would explain it away as "metabolic failure"..but..they did not. by 1966 the entire experiment was deemed a failure and the project abandoned,they thought it was over...but it wasn't. What the Docs who created this Supervirus were unaware of was its 10-15 yr "Incubation" period before it strikes it's Victims(sero-conversion). 17 years later the first case(VERY first case) of an immune destroying virus was found in a Man,that man had been a Prisoner at Leavenworth in 1961 and had been given the experimental Hepatitis vaccine..
I swear this is TRUE I discovered this in an article on the web 5 years ago,it has since "Been removed" and its author(a former scientist at the lab in Bethdesda MD) has mysteriously "dissapeared".
Doctors can trace back the number of years to the point of infection,before a person Sero-converts and the virus then shows up in a standard AIDS test, I tested Positive in 1982 and I am one of the longest living survivors with full-blown AIDS,Doctors traced back my year of infection to 1972,when as a teenage boy I was walking the streets of Boston homeless after my parents threw me out when they discovered they had a "Gay" teenage Son.

Monkey Origin..NO.."Monkey Buisiness" most definatly!

Answer 8

The standard answer is Sub-saharan Africa. See the first Wikipedia reference below.

A bit more interesting is the fact that there is still controversy
around the notion that HIV causes AIDS. See the second Wikipedia reference below.

Answer 9

At this point I don't think anybody knows for sure. However I have read that perhaps it stared in Africa with monkeys.

Answer 10

It is highly accepted in the international health community that the AIDS virus originated in primate species in the jungles of Africa.