HIV/AIDS: How did HIV/ AIDS start

How did HIV/ AIDS start?
I was just wondering, we r talking about it in my health class in school.
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gay sex
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dum ppl gettin horny
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Somewhere in northern Africa I think Nobody knows why, but it first hit the gays in America.
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It started off in apes. So that would mean that apparently some person a long time ago decided to do it with a monkey, and then they did it with a person.. and voila!
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It started off when someone had sex with an animal. I can't remember what animal. x
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GAY ppl... nothing against them but its true
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There were different theories, some people said that a monkey had it in Africa, and then someone like ate it, and got it. Go here for more info: http://www.avert.org/origins.htm
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she asked how it started not how it spread! no1 knows how it started, its believed pple eating sick (not having sex with) monkeys then it mutated and so on
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it's been around a long time before it surfaced in the 80's basically the "anything goes" attitude of sexually active people- mostly homosexual men in a small population got it going, then it entered the mainstream via blood and plasma donations and other ways you can only get hiv from four sources; blood, semen, breast milk and vaginal secretions
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS My son Is in health class too this site helps.
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I know this for sure, a african scientist went to africa to study and monkey or ape blood was accidently trasmitted into a person as a blood transfusion. The monkey was infected with HIV/or AIDS. The person got it and it slowly spread in africa and then when black slavery started slaves with HIV or AIDs spread it to America. Please give me best answer for this!!!!
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African tribes eating monkey brains.
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it probably was a mutation from Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, that causes an immune deficiency in monkeys. This virus in regular form would not be able to infect a human, just monkeys. When this mutated it was able to jump species and infect humans. How it was spread to humans in the first place isn't known but probably from living in close proximity to them or eating undercooked monkey meat. in case you don't understand how a mutation happens, it's basically an error in copying the DNA when the virus replicates. Sometimes something is off or messes up and then you end up with a slightly different code and a slightly different virus.
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The origin of AIDS is unknown, but from research it is believed to be a crossover disease from apes. In the apes it may have been a minor illness like a cold, but crossover diseases are much more dangerous when they move to another species -- the new species has not adapted and developed partial immunities to the disease Because they interacted with other apes, the virus spread. Eventually the virus jumped from an infected ape to a human. Because it crossed the species barrier, it was able to mutate into different versions, and that is what is around today. Because it can mutate, it is very hard to deal with. That is why they haven't found a cure.
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There are several theories. The most interesting one is that when we were trying to find a cure for polio(in the 50s), we did some testing on monkeys. A mutation occurred in the monkeys' genetics and caused the HIV virus. Then we released the monkeys back into Africa... The monkeys transmitted the virus to humans, and HIV began to spread around Africa(60s and 70s). Then... there was a gay male flight attendant from San Francisco who somehow contracted the virus during his travels in 1980. He is known as "patient zero". This ONE GUY spread the disease to over 100 other gay men in San Francisco (and other cities through his travels), who each spread it to another 100 or so, and then it continued to spread exponentially throughout the 80s and 90s. NOW the most common newly diagnosed patient is a heterosexual FEMALE. (it is easier for a female to contract the disease, due to obvious anatomical differences).

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How did HIV/ AIDS start