Sunday, February 24, 2008

How did HIV Aids start

How did HIV Aids start?

Biology - 7 Answers
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1 :
Started in Africa
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Where did the Black Plague Start? Also, where did the Olympics Start? Everything is a mystery.
3 :
2 Words: Monkey Sex
4 :
Possibly in Africa, from Africans eating undercooked Green Monkey meat infected with the SIV virus, which mutated into HIV in humans.
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It was spread from chips to human in Belgian Congo in Africa. Human immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. It also directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. As CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system, when enough CD4+ T cells have been destroyed by HIV, the immune system functions poorly, leading to the syndrome known as AIDS.
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it is thought HIV started in africa, it is common for people over there to eat "bush" meat , that is animals that in western societies are considered "wild", among them _monkeys _ and some monkeys are carriers of a particular strain of HIV- that in humans may mutate into a human HIV strain.
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The transfer was more likely to occur when someone was cutting a monkey up for meat than when it was being eaten, even if it was undercooked. You get a lot of blood on you butchering an animal, and if you have a cut, you can pick up all kinds of things.

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