what about AIDS?

Question

we all know aids came from africa but i read some where this diesease came from monkeys is it true it really came from monkeys and how?

Answer 1

i m 200%agree with smartie

Answer 2

that rumor started when a journalist named Edward Hooper
published a book in 1999 called "The River." He siad that an experimental polio vaccine made using chimpanzee kidney tissue was how simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) crossed into humans to become HIV, thus starting the human AIDS pandemic.

But that was only one theory. It has never been proved, and there is not enough evidence to say either way.

Answer 3

Two species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is thought to have originated in southern Cameroon after jumping from wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) to humans during the twentieth century. HIV-2 may have originated from the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon. HIV-1 is the most virulent. It is easily transmitted and is the cause of the majority of HIV infections globally. HIV-2 is less transmittable and is largely confined to West Africa. HIV-1 is the virus that was initially discovered and termed LAV.

Three of the earliest known instances of HIV-1 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.

Although a variety of theories exist explaining the transfer of HIV to humans, no single hypothesis is widely accepted, and the topic remains controversial. Freelance journalist Tom Curtis discussed one controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article. He put forward what is now known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis, which suggests that AIDS was inadvertently caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article motivated another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to probe more deeply into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) crossed into humans to become HIV, thus starting the human AIDS pandemic.

PS: Sometimes viruses jump from one specie to another by mutating. For example few years ago the Bird Flu virus jumped humans: "Although avian influenza A viruses usually do not infect humans, rare cases of human infection with avian influenza viruses have been reported since 1997." http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/avian-flu-humans.htm

Answer 4

Some believe that aids mutated from the african green monkey in africa.

Viruses can jump from other species if they mutate. It's like the fear of Bird Flu being able to infect humans if it mutates.

Answer 5

Zoo-philia, I do remember, to have read that in the jungle and without woman some explorer just may have decided to put an end to his abstinence by having intercourse with some kind of monkey. However I am unable to sustain this statement.

Answer 6

It probably did come from a monkey.

No, someone didn't have sex w/ a monkey. The virus can be passed along by any blood contact, and that would include monkey bites, butching a monkey for food, etc.

Answer 7

yes monkeys they say.
i don't know what people do in africa?
keep away from monkeys and monkey like things.

Answer 8

yes monkeys and man and beastiality,sick isnt it