2007-01-26 00:26:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
HIV has not been around for centuries, was not caused by sex with monkeys, and most certainly was not generated in a government lab.
It's generally accepted that HIV is most closely related to monkey viruses, in particular SIV or Simian immunodeficiency virus. It's not really known how the virus changed hosts, but it's highly likely that the host jump occurred more than once.
The first confirmed human case occurred in 1959. The estimated time of the first case ever is sometime around 1930.
Numerous factors have hastened the spread of HIV, including international travel, increased drug use, and to some extent the blood industry.
2007-01-26 01:20:12 · answer #1 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NOT BABOONS, OR Homosexuals. There are strains of the AIDS virus found in many different species but they are each specific the their Grnus such as Feline AIDS, Canine AIDS, etc.
AIDS in humans has been around for an ubtold and unknown amount of time. I believe that probably Before Christ's Birth their has always been AIDS probably started after the Original Sin if you believe in the Biblical History, or however you look at it. Humans used to live regularly 150 + years and Methusela actually lived for more than 600 years. I belive that AIDS has been until very recently in its history misdiagnosed since people don't die from the AIDS virus they die from the disease(s) they contract because they have AIDS virus, which only attacks the immune system, and because it is so weakened you contract another disease from cancer, to a cold, or Leprosy, and because your immune system is screwed up by the AIDS Virus you can not fight the Disease off.
I am sure that people have died because of AIDS since at least the beginning of written history, if not the beginning of the Human Race, just no body knew what to call it
2007-01-26 00:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by beemer_girl_70 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont think anyone knows. There were rumors that it was started in a government lab where they worked with monkeys but that was just a rumor. Who knows?
2007-01-26 00:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was african men having sex with green monkeys thats what i got told
2007-01-26 00:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by ganza37 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋