How did HIV/Aids originate? PLEASE read my additional details before answering, its damn buggin when they dont

There is a myth that it came from person sharing a sexual relationship with a monkey or similar primate. Personally speaking, I don't believe in that theory because out of all the people working at zoo's, sanctuarie's, wild life reserve's,animal care centre's and even those who live in habitat's they share with monkeys- such as tribal people in parts of the world such as SouthAsia, Africa, Malaysia and other LEDC's- at least one person must have got bitten by a monkey or scratched by a monkey in the entire section of the race of humanity that is fraternising with such primates. Then why is it that such people end up with rabies & not HIV/Aid's? When if another human suffering from HIV can pass the disease on to another human by the same mediums i.e scratching, biting etc. People can pass the disease through both ways, sexual intercourse and externaly such as wounds BUT monkeys can pass it ONLY through sexual intercourse and NOT other external ways?

Where did HIV come from?


The earliest known case of HIV-1 in a human was from a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (How he became infected is not known.) Genetic analysis of this blood sample suggested that HIV-1 may have stemmed from a single virus in the late 1940s or early 1950s.


For many years scientists theorized as to the origins of HIV and how it appeared in the human population, most believing that HIV originated in other primates. Then in 1999, an international team of researchers reported that they had discovered the origins of HIV-1, the predominant strain of HIV in the developed world. A subspecies of chimpanzees native to west equatorial Africa had been identified as the original source of the virus. The researchers believe that HIV-1 was introduced into the human population when hunters became exposed to infected blood.

For more information on this discovery, visit the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases press release at

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsrelea...

No one really knows how it originated and that's why you have a load of theories on it. Chances are it is a virus which mutated and then, through a lack of poor sexual health education and poor medical practises spread quickly around the world.

Viruses mutate all the time (that's evolution for you) and maybe if someone can work out what it mutated from then we might be able to find a cure for this disease.

they say it was introduced to the third world countries to eradicate the population,thasts why the majority of the afrikas have it,apparently it was the missonories who brought it back here,there is many theories and arguments no body will admit to a disease like that,manmade.it got out of control,look how much money geyts invested to fight such things,is it any wonder it exists,money the root of all evil.

The best theory that I have seen is a PBS broadcast called "THE AGE OF AIDS" it gives you a glimpse of the monkey theory.

Yeah i heard the same as Ramraider!That it was made and sent over in coke cans/bottles to reduce the population,there was a documentary on not long ago talking about it!Check on google for more info!

right to start with it is highly unlikely that you will get hiv from a bite off an infected person that is a myth amongst many others. Tests and research show that it is not possible to be infected from saliva, there has to be blood present from a fresh open wound. so it is more than likely the case that it originated from an attack where the primate was wounded and the was a cross infection of plasma (blood)