please settle a bet. i say the origin of aids is from infected chimp brains being eaten.?

Question

my wife says it's from sexual intercourse between a person and an infected chimp. who is right?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the specific origin of HIV (and AIDS) is unknown. However, the prevailing theory is yours; that SIV (Simean immunodeficiency Virus) made the species jump from humans eating SIV-infected monkey meat. But nobody knows for sure. I doubt we'll ever know.

Answer 2

No one really knows the origin. You would have to go all the way back to the TRUE first case, which was probably not diagnosed. A teenage prostitute with Kaposi's sarcoma back in (I think) 1959 is considered the first case. However, someone gave it to the teen, right?!

The only way you can get it from infected chimp brains would be for the brains to be very fresh so the virus could survive and then being eaten by someone with a wound in his or her mouth or digestive tract. You can consume bodily fluids with the HIV virus and not contract the disease. HIV-infected women in Africa are urged to breastfeed their babies exclusively--this prevents damage to their intestines from baby formulas that are not completely digestible. The babies do not contract HIV in this manner.

In my *opinion* it is possible to transmit it sexually between primate species, but I'm not an AIDS researcher and I've never seen it done, so there is no proof. There is no proof, PERIOD, of any original method of transmission. If you weren't there at a microscopic level watching the virus go from organism to organism, there is no way to know how it was contracted.

The scratch theory holds some water, but how does one know that the scratched person did not contract it earlier or later than the scratch occurred? We don't know. There are some things we'll never know... unless, of course, someone actually admits to manufacturing the virus and releasing it and can prove they really did so. Otherwise, we can just make our best guesses.

Answer 3

Neither of the above opinions are accurate. I took at course in Molecular Biology in my unergrad degree that taught us about the origin of HIV. The professor presented the theory (rather widely accepted). It basically goes like this:

There exist several types of HIV viruses. The major type of HIV that has become the scourge of the world is the HIV-1 M group. HIV-1 originated from its equivalent in chimpanzees, SIVcpz (simian immunodeficiency virus in chimpanzees). Indeed, the most diverse forms of HIV-1 are found in the range of chimpanzees in west equatorial Africa. (1-4) Similarly, HIV-2 is most closely related to SIV in sooty mangabey monkeys and its most diverse forms are found in regions that overlap with the range of these monkeys. (5-10) The common ancestor of the different HIV-1 M types dates to 1931. (5, 11), [1] SIV transfer from chimpanzees and sooty mangabey monkeys to humans has been documented on at least 7 occasions, and laboratory experiments have revealed the ease with which various SIV strains can infect and replicate within some cells in human blood. (12) SIV strains in two monkey species [ that are butchered and eaten by chimpanzees] hybridized to form SIVcpz. (13) SIV viruses have mutated into HIV viruses, and their transfer to humans is almost certainly a result of the sub-Saharan African practice of butchering and eating chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys (bushmeat). (13-15), [2] Indeed, HIV-infection has been documented in sub-Saharan Africa in 1959. (19, 20) A recent analysis of 1,099 Central African bushmeat hunters revealed that 1% of them were infected with the simian foamy virus (SFV), which is a retrovirus like SIV and HIV. The investigators demonstrated three geographically-independent human SFV infections, all acquired from different monkey and ape species: De Brazza's guenon, mandrills, and gorillas. The De Brazza's guenon and mandrill are naturally infected with SFV. Clearly, more AIDS-like viruses are forthcoming for humanity.


So it wasn't specically that they ate the monkey brains, but rather the meat. However, the carnivore theory hasn't been proven, and it may simply be the exposure to infected monkey blood or other bodily fluids.

Answer 4

I fear that you are both wrong, certainly it is said that the origin may be from chimps, but eating brains or having sex with one is not quite there.

Answer 5

i ought to assert your probabilities of contracting the AIDS virus is going up. in simple terms as in case you've been to have the AIDS virus, positioned on a condom earlier attractive in sex, your probabilities of passing/contracting is going up. ought to I devour a human contaminated with the AIDS virus? raw~i does not favor to, detesting the concept-about cannibalism, one, and a couple of, confident i ought to contract the AIDS virus. Cooked, i ought to nonetheless not devour a human, one for cannibalism and a couple of for that tiny shred of danger that technology did not seize alongside the way considering 1982. Cheers.

Answer 6

It is a genetically engineered virus produced in a secret underground laboratory, as a population reduction experiment.

Answer 7

well, ive heard two things, i dont know for fact... one, man and chimps had sex, two, it was a lab thing that went wrong ( looking for a cure for something) and got out to public.... im not sure, thats what ive heard

Answer 8

You are both wrong. It was from a virul transmission between monkeys in Uganda and natives...the transmission occured from a scratch.

Answer 9

Neither...