Knowing that the common ways of transmitting AIDS are through sexual contact, blood transfusion, using infected syringes etc.
2006-09-20 02:51:45 · 18 answers · asked by know it all 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
what is the purpose of this question? i dont see any. any answers to this are purely speculation as there could be one of countless possibilities but more importantly your question is wrong in the first place. it is NOT known that HIV first APPEARED in chimps. it was first IDENTIFIED in chimps. theres a difference between the two statements (get your facts straight) and when it was first identified in chimps , HIV was already fast spreading in humans so there is NO conclusive evidence that HIV spread from chimps to humans. for the sake of argument it could be the other way around. however for your information and to the rest of the people who answered let me clarify that the strain of HIV identified in chimps is called HIV-2 or SIV whereas the one in humans is HIV-1 they are both similar but HIV-2 cant survive in humans and vice versa. it is only postulated that humans got HIV from chimps and that also through mutation of HIV-2 to HIV-1. it is similar to the case of avian flu. enough said.
2006-09-20 03:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by ash 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hunting chimpanzees for meat is common in central and even parts of western and southern Africa. If a hunter gets a wound (maybe hunters were also warriors with open wounds) and spills the blood of a chimp (who is bleeding anyway because it was just killed) the disease jumps.
This is the way it jumped to humans, since humans and chimps share the DNA genetical make up to such a large extent, diseases are known to jump easily.
2006-09-20 05:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many speculations regarding this, though one of the most common story is that a man had sex with a chimpanzee, and that chimpanzee, coincidentally, is suffering from SIV, Simian immunodeficiency virus. Apparently after was passed to the man, there were some mutations going on and viola! HIV emerged.
2006-09-20 04:18:43 · answer #3 · answered by why_oh_why 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible it was transfered doing medical experiment's on monkeys? Blood got in an open cut - I don't suppose medical facilities are quite as up to scratch in the jungle?
Or possibly the less paletable idea that someone who was sexually frustrated in Africa had sex with a monkey?
I'd like to think that it was the top one.
2006-09-20 02:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by Adam L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I'll go with the monkeys being biting a human.. Monkeys are trapped for scientific uses. I quess one of the trapers got trapped!
2006-09-20 03:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by super.sweep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think that HIV came from monkeys. i am one of the very few people who believe that this virus was injected to humans body deliberately to it might sounds like a medical experiment but it was not. it was tested on animals and then injected on human.
2006-09-20 03:07:15 · answer #6 · answered by FreeVoice 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eating monkeys and possibly being bitten by a monkey.
2006-09-20 03:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by Psionyx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chimp serum has been used in vaccines for humans.
But the other exaplantion given are plausible as well.
2006-09-20 03:03:31 · answer #8 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's possible that some humans were bitten by monkeys and it spread from there.
2006-09-20 02:54:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
blood transfusion during a struggle
2006-09-20 03:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋