How did AIDS start?

Question

how did aids arts what caused it to start

Answer 1

It is commonly accepted that the AIDS originated in an African monkey. Because they interacted with other monkeys, the virus spread. Eventually the virus jumped from an infected monkey to a human. Because it crossed the specieces barrier, it was able to mutate into what it is today.

Answer 2

There many answer but they really doesn't know it could have started in the after WW2.
No one could have known in 1981 when the CDC first detailed the cases of the “5 young men, all active homosexuals,” with a rare pneumonia (two of whom had died) that the report heralded a plague with 25 million dead and an estimated 65 million infected worldwide so far.

When doctors at UCLA first connected those five cases — diagnosed from October 1980 to May 1981 — and contacted the CDC, the seeds for a massive worldwide crisis were well in place. But the numbers of infections and deaths could have been far fewer.
That June 5, 1981 report said the infections were likely caused by “some aspect of a homosexual lifestyle or disease acquired through sexual contact.”

At the beginning, there was the suspicion that some drug might be responsible. Inhalants known as ‘poppers’ used for stimulants were at the center of one common hypothesis.
President Ronald Reagan famously refused to say the word “AIDS” for six-and-a-half years.

Answer 3

Where Did AIDS Come From?
Most "new" diseases, whether Legionnaires' disease, the Black Death, or AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), are probably just "unfamiliar" rather than new. There is always the possibility that the diseases existed, perhaps changing and conforming unnoticed until they become too much for the body to fight off - at which time, they come into prominence and are called a "new" disease. AIDS will probably never be traced to its immediate source, but scientists now know that the disease is native to the central African nations of Zaire, Burundi, Ugandi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya, and that there is a species of monkey that abounds in that region, called the African "green", which carries a virus very similar in structure to that of the AIDS virus and in the very blood cells that AIDS prefers. These monkeys do not react to the disease as humans and other primates do, probably because they have developed a built-in protection against it. Because of this, they may have been carrying the virus long before it became known to humans. The natives often sell the monkeys and sometimes eat their flesh. It is very probable that bites and scratches from the monkeys started the infection in man. As the natives were forced from their independent tribes into the cities, the monkeys migrated with them, eating from garbage heaps and infecting other men by biting and scratching when they tried to chase them away. AIDS was first diagnosed a decade or two (perhaps even as far back as the 1960's) before it was detected in the United States. Various AIDS-like symptoms were found in some western-Africans who came to Europe. It has been theorized that the AIDS virus may have come to America through Haiti, because thousands of people took part in a cultural exchange between French-speaking Zaire and the Caribbean Islands. It may then have been transmitted through homosexual males or IV drug abusers into New York, and then spread rapidly across the U.S., infecting homosexual and drug abusing communities, where the spread of infection has an ideal climate, especially for this type of virus. Bisexual males have since transmitted the virus to their spouses and sexual partners and then women to their unborn children. It is known that homosexual males and IV drug abusers have the highest statistical spread of the virus, although the percentages are rising in other categories because of bisexual activities and infected prostitutes. It is very clear that monogamous relationships and safe sex practices would help in curtailing the disease.