Where did the AIDS virus get its start?

Question

I've heard it was originally a disease found in monkeys, and was transferred to humans via "sickening behavior", if you get my drift.
Is this true?
If not, then what was the origin of AIDS?

Answer 1

What you have heard is a misinterpretation of a theory about AIDS starting from the polio vaccinations administered to Africans including children who's immune systems had not yet developed. (over 1 million people from 1957-1960 The vaccine was grown (cultured) in monkey kidneys.

Since the current most publicized method of transmission is through sexual contact, the less intelligent masses made up the fairy tale you are questioning .

There are probably more theories as to origin which include the cut hunter theory which would be an evolution of nature where a cut hunter got the virus from an infected monkey.

You can read more on this in many places.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/
http://www.avert.org/origins.htm
http://www.originofaids.com/

Most of the theories point to AIDS being a man made disease .. accident or by design? Sort of brings up a lot of ethical questions.

Answer 2

It could've been transferred to humans through something as simple as a bite. However, there are a lot of conspiracy theories about AIDS; some people draw conclusions from the virus' makeup and mutation ability that it was man made. The fact that it originated in Africa causes some people to take it further and say it was a virus synthetically created to wipe out blacks. Same concept was used for gay people, when it was called the gay disease.

Answer 3

AIDS could not have been a man made disease. They have tissue samples from an African man who died mysteriously in 1959 that upon analysis turned out he died of AIDS. Also tissue samples of a boy in St. Louis in 1969 which did too.

Geneticisists believe it jumped species in the 1930s however it obviously remained in isolated populations and kept mutating.

There are two variants of HIV: HIV1 (the more virulent one which kills quicker and is more transmissable--the one everyone hears about) and HIV2 (most cases originate in West Africa and it never really spread beyond there unless someone visits and leaves with it). Curiously enough scientists have found a virus in monkeys almost identical to HIV2, so it is likely that HIV2 was the first to jump species and due to the virus quick rate of evolution it evolved into a quicker spreading, more potent HIV1 we see today.

So there is strong evidence it came from a species of monkey, and no it cannot be proven whether it was transmitted sexually or by eating it, but it seems more likely from eating it as direct exposure to the blood is likely a higher transmission medium than the other potential vector.

Answer 4

Some monkeys have it all the time and has no effect so dont know the origin but the transfer of aids to humans was via humans having sex with monkeys,then to the gays.

Answer 5

hear to this: there replaced into presently a three-hour long documentary that surely summed up the beginning up of the virus as this: the polio vaccine in touch utilization of areas of the monkey, what they have been, i'm no longer sparkling. The U.S. government first presented the polio vaccine into Africa...Now the monkeys have been contaminated and the government did no longer locate out till lots later while the disease had unfold. So surely IT replaced into in actuality began in a laboratory, besides the undeniable fact that probable no longer intentionally.

Answer 6

I have heard from monkeys in africa and some one was bite and braught it over with him but I don't think any one really knows. I also heard some people beleive the goverment set it loose as a war weapon and it got out of their control. I think it gos back farther than any one knows because it had to of taken more than 50 years to spread world wide.

Answer 7

I don't think anyone knows exactly how it got transferred from monkeys to humans, but yours is one theory.

Answer 8

Yes, that is true. Men will do anything to get laid, even with a monkey.

Answer 9

yep, thats the same story I heard, and if you think about it, it really makes sense. Where else would it have come from.

Answer 10

I've heard the same thing.personally i think is true, when men are horny there's no telling what they could do.