my friend just asked me this on msn and i dont know what to tell her
2007-03-12 13:56:54 · 14 answers · asked by lisa h 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
It came from lorry drivers oops thats HGV
2007-03-12 14:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...ask Aziz...he's been shagging monkey's for years.
Seriously, this monkey story has been going around since AIDS was first diagnosed. Probably since Patient Zero was supposed to have been a male flight attendant arriving from Africa. File that story with the "world is flat" theory that was popular 500 years ago.
2007-03-12 14:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lisa,
No, it seems to have come from eating infected monkey meat, which includes being exposed to the blood of a monkey while butchering it.
You see, monkeys can get a virus called SIV, Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, which is very close to HIV and seems to have been the reservoir to this case of zoonosis (the "jumping" of a disease from one species to another. It happens fairly often, as in bird flu). People exposed to SIV often develop antibodies almost indestinguishable from HIV antibodies. The monkeys sold in markets in Cameroon, for example, have been estimated to be infected with SIV at a rate of about 33%. It's really easy to be exposed to it in certain parts of Africa.
We estimate that the jump occurred sometime in the 1930s.
A few years ago, a lab worker (I forget where, though the report said. I apologize for this lapse) got stuck with a needle he'd used on an SIV-infected monkey and developed HIV antibodies.
So the old (and rather low and mean) story that it came from sexual relations with a monkey is wrong. I suspect that it came from racist bigots. Eating the meat or contacting the blood of infected monkeys is the most likely path of infection.
Although "the other way around" is rather funny.
2007-03-12 17:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by eutychusagain 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I heard that story when i was in school. we were told that monkeys use to jump down from the tree's and attack people who were working in the fields and then rape them. lovely thing to be told when your only 10!!!! but have a feeling it's not true so dont worry
2007-03-13 00:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by ems dublin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monkeys Shagging
2017-02-20 12:24:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It came from hunting primates for food, for live capture for pets, to sell to zoos and circuses, etc.
Do a GOOGLE or YAHOO! search on [bushmeat] for more information.
2007-03-16 05:11:48 · answer #6 · answered by Phillip D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Definitely not.
This stupid theory had just been recently discounted.
Read on here: Just click on the link
http://www.aegis.com/news/ap/1988/ap8806...
Good Luck, I hope this helps.
2007-03-12 14:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by DeN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Somethimg to do with africans, people shagging slaves or something, this aint a racist comment by the way, just what i heard!
2007-03-12 17:53:35 · answer #8 · answered by Rachael H 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No! what the heck are you thinking, everyone knows it came from Panda Bears
2007-03-12 14:04:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Lisa, it did, now you just lie down and take a nap! you'll feel better in the morning!
2007-03-12 14:00:32 · answer #10 · answered by Greybeard 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋