Where did HIV come from? Could it have been created by man?

Answer 1

Your question suggests some deeply hidden conspiracy. And this falls into the "X-File" like realm of "anything is possible". However, my belief is that it really is a mutated version of SIV, the simian form of HIV.

Nations around the world eat monkey meat. They could get exposed to SIV in dealing with this meat. SIV doesn't damage humans, but it most likely mutated when it encountered man. HIV has already shown that it can mutate to counter drugs targeted against it, which is one reason treatment and a "cure" has proven challenging.

The disease may have taken years to transition from SIV to HIV and then slowly spread. But these processes are exponential - once it started, it grew rapidly.

There is quite a bit of evidence that people died due to complications from HIV in the 1950's and earlier - well before man knew enough about molecular biology to engineer such a molecule.

As such, I say no - it is not something created directly by human hands. But man was responsible indirectly (in the mutation from HIV to SIV).

Answer 2

HIV is very similar to SIV (Simian Immuno virus), which affects monkeys. It is probable that this is where HIV originated, and mutated to be able to affect humans. Possible infection resulted from contact with bush meat, or a monkey bite. Over the millenia, monkeys have developed a resistance to SIV, meaning that whilst many monkeys are carriers of the virus, it has little or no effect on their health. It is entirely possible that the same will happen in the human population over time.

Answer 3

There is a conspiracy theory that HIV was developed in laboratories during th Cold War - but not the slightest shred of evidence to support that idea. A common theory is that HIV developed in wild primates in West Africa, and jumped species to man following an exchange of body fluids between a man and a wild primate. It spread insidiously around the world until it was identified in the US - but by then it was too late to halt the spread.
Contrary to what has been written above - it is unlikely to have been spread by a man doing something unspeakable to a monkey - but if a monkey did something unspeakable to a man.....

Answer 4

There was a huge scientific investigation done a few years ago on this subject, that was , for obvious reasons kept under wraps.
The outcome was, that the W.H.O. are responsible.
Giving smallpox and polio vaccinations in regions of Africa, that have been pinpointed !, were found to be contamimated. the cultures were grown on monkey glands, such as kidney`s etc that had already contracted S.I.V....the animal strain of H.I.V., and consequently everyone that was innoculated had been given contaminated anti-bodies.
i myself did do quite a lot of research on this subject on the net to follow this up, and yes, it had been proved.

If you trawl the net on "the origin of a.i.d.s or h.i.v." you`ll be suprised what you come up with if you keep exploring.

Answer 5

Yes, you've hit right on it. HIV was created by man. It took place in a laboratory in South Carolina where researchers were trying to develop a new and improved pet shampoo. Someone mixed chemicals incorrectly, and poof! HIV! Excellent question.

Answer 6

It is man induced and I think it started in the warmer countries but less likely in cooler countries.

Answer 7

you people can't be serious ...... having sex with a monkey omg
there are people all around the world that actually eat monkeys
and fluids could of mixed that way .... which i believe to be more likely then having sex with a monkey

Answer 8

I once read a theory that it was created in a vivisection laboratory.

Answer 9

There is a huge difference between "Could it?" and "Was it?"

Could it? Possibly.
Was it? Probably not.

The best I have seen it that it was an inter species jump from primates to humans.

Answer 10

Viruses don't need any help to mutate into dangerous, infectious forms.