2007-11-08 08:19:57 · 12 answers · asked by gg 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2786147&dopt=AbstractPlus
It is generally believed by immunologists that the SIV disease in chimpanzee populations in Africa (which didn't cause illness) may have mutated when it crossed with SIV present in other primate species. It is then believed that when humans hunted, butchered and prepared the meat of these monkees for human consumption they became contaminated with infected blood products and eventually the virus was able to cause the HIV infection and subsequently AIDS in the humans.
2007-11-08 14:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by heartintennessee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are all out of Africa, even the aids virus, but we will never know for sure, if it was the monkey first, or the on who did the monkey.
2007-11-08 08:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"monkeys" didn't cause AIDS. I think it's like this: the disease came about due to humans meat from eating great apes; and b/c our dna and that of great apes is so similar...that's how it went down.
2007-11-08 09:22:50 · answer #3 · answered by elle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some would like for you to believe that.
IMO, genetic experimentation produced AIDS as a weapon and it was released in Africa as a test which subsequently got out of control, or maybe it didn't get out of control. This might be just the planned sequence.
2007-11-08 08:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Haha! Don't let people fool you! Monkeys did NOT cause AIDS. The real truth is that man created it. It's not a natural dease.
2007-11-08 08:26:13 · answer #5 · answered by Plane Crazy 4 YHWH 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No
A monkey cannot create a disease.
Well. I guess a very smart one could. Monkeys are not that smart, yet.
2007-11-08 08:37:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. monkeys didnt cause aids. Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century; it is now a pandemic, with an estimated 38.6 million people now living with the disease worldwide
2007-11-08 08:29:03 · answer #7 · answered by Kimberlee 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is a very similar disease in Monkeys, but that doesn't mean they caused the disease.
2007-11-08 08:22:43 · answer #8 · answered by Steve C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible that chimps carried the virus and transmitted it to humans when they ate their meat.
2007-11-08 08:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by DAR76 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I tend to believe the truth and the truth is the united states government created this horrible disease
2007-11-08 08:24:05 · answer #10 · answered by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋