Is HIV really a virus that was designed by a government to eradicate gays and blacks?

Answer 1

someone had unprotected sex with a chimp

Answer 2

There's a principle in science called Ockham's Razor that states that in any question, the simplest answer is most likely the truth.

HIV is very similar to SIV, a virus in monkeys in Africa. There are customs in areas that involve eating brains, or other organs. This could have easily spread the virus.

I don't particularly trust any government body, but the arguments of this seems pretty far fetched, with something so plausible sitting right in front of me.

Answer 3

nopes! to look at it thro' socio-economic views, AIDS causes a lot of loss to the governments worldwide and to the UN .. it causes lots of pressure on the nations to keep a check on the number of individuals living with the disease and to prevent further spreading of the disease!

now from the science and research:

Twenty-five years after the first cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, emerged, scientists have confirmed that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.

Solving the mystery of HIV's ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh faeces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples.

Before that, it took seven years just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting endangered species.

The tools


Until now, "no one was able to look. No one had the tools," said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She led the team of international researchers that reported this in Friday's edition of Science.

"We're 25 years into this pandemic," Dr. Hahn said. "We don't have a cure. We don't have a vaccine. But we know where it came from. At least we can make a check mark on one of those."

Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that populates mostly West Africa.

It was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man.

Dr. Hahn's team tested chimp faeces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon.

Chimps tend to form geographically distinct communities. By genetically analysing the faeces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all. Every single infected chimp had a common base genetic pattern that indicated a common ancestor, Dr. Hahn said.

There are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let Hahn identify chimp communities near Cameroon's Sanaga river whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes. "The genetic similarity was striking," Dr. Hahn said.

The first one


The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed.

Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else.

The Sanaga long has been a commercial waterway, for transporting hardwood, ivory and other items to more urban areas. Eventually, someone infected made it to Kinshasa.


hope it helped!

Answer 4

How can you ask such a stupid question? Of course it isn't. It's a virus that began in animals and mutated enough to move to people.

Answer 5

How much hash have you been smoking? You're pretty paranoid. Unless of course you're a fundamentalist. Then there's no hope for you.

Answer 6

Absolutely not!

It's a naturally-occurring plague which anyone has and can get.

Answer 7

i swear to god it wouldn't surprise me.

then i suppose bird flu ( however in development ) is our way of getting rid of Asians to create a perfect race.

Answer 8

I hope not, if that's true we should all be very scared.

Answer 9

no that's a figment of your imagination

Answer 10

What kind of stupid question is this?