ani
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i heard it was from people having sex with gorillas...
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C
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interesting Q I hope that we get some varied and original none rude and racist Q as we normally do on here
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noob saibot
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apparently it came from sum on avin sex wif gorrila..(is tha possible?) eurgh. /i dont think its true . the question is how on earth did it transfer from there..?
the man above who sed its from africans doin the dirty with the monkey ,if thats the case then its the "european/american" who were gay and had sex with the "african" who had sex wif the monkey make sense ?
i think it started in 1933 when kingkong came to newyork. he had blood from his body spilt out and it came in contact to some human body and it mutated into a virus tha cannot be cured.
all valid points!
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oceanwaves
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monkeys
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hasse_john
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See Horowitz's book EMERGING VIRUS'S AIDS AND EBOLA. Short answer it was created in the lab at Ft. Dettrick Maryland.
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Random Joe
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it likely happened with people in africa eating monkey meat
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delphi13
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apparently from monkeys but who really knows where such things come from. It's one of the mysteries of life.
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Dave X
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This MUST be a mutant mixture of several diseases within the human body arrived at over milleniums.
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Kojak 2.
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Monkey bummers did it......the dirty spider monkey shagging bastards.
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amanda c
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In the 1970's a host of new exotic diseases started spreading around the world as a result of increasing mobility. One such was 'Green monkey disease' which seems to be unheard of now. When the cause of AIDS was being investigated one of the vectors being looked at was the e coli bacterium. The other big story at the time was DNA and genetic engineering.
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spunkafkemug
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It might have been from a polio vaccine scientist were experimenting with.It is a hard virus toctach and transspecies is unlikely.
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Ahwell
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From Africans doing the dirty with monkeys, apparently.
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just fine
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its believed to have come from monkeys, passed through blood.
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bluerose123
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we are led to believe it originated from the African green monkey,its bite infecting humans,but who really knows?
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david f
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If you believe the conspiracy theories on the Internet it was deliberately introduced by the US government as a kind of biological warfare. Odd that it first appeared in the gay community in New York - that's rather a long way from any African monkeys....
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Perseus
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Well one theory is that two seperate primate viruses mutated to form a new virus, the AIDS virus, and that a human hunted a monkey down with this new virus and it infected the person when the animals' blood got into a cut on him or he ate the monkey's flesh.
It is a question with no real one-solution answer.
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HotInTX
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From African monkeys infected with virus, transported to the United States back as early as 1970.
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catweazle
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in a lab
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howaytheladlee
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bubbles was eating off michaels plate
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tony c
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the first recorded case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome originated in the gay communes of 1970's new york.
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crgl.smt@verizon.net
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barney,
Diseases have to start somewhere. Some originated in Europe, some in Asia, some in North America. It all depends on where the mutating DNA or RNA--and all DNA mutates--formed this particular virus.
It seems to have begun in monkeys. The Simian Immunodeficience Virus is extremely similar to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and shows evidence of what is called zoonosis, or "species jump," transfer from one species to another. There are a few viruses that do this, cowpox is one old example, and then there's bird flu for another.
So for SIV to become HIV would not be a surprise. And it doesn't have to be through sexual contact, either. I saw a report a couple of years ago saying that one-third of the monkey meat in markets in Cameroon was infected with SIV, and another one telling of a pair of laboratory workers who were stuck with needles that had been used on SIV-positive monkeys, and both of them later tested positive for HIV antibodies.
From the spread of the disease--and the extrapolation is a little uncertain because records were not well kept in Africa in the 1930s--it started in equatorial Africa somewhere in the mid '30s. It was transferred to humans through the eating of monkey meat and spread from there. It wasn't through sexual contact but through blood in butchering and eating monkey meat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin
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