Knowledge Start of Aids and The Origin of HIV

Today all of us are cognizant of the periods HIV and AIDS. The infection has killed millions of persons worldwide and it is approximated that 40 million persons are HIV contaminated. We were ignorant of the HIV and AIDS till early 1980. no one understands from where the virus came. It is all assumptions that scientists and investigators can make. Researchers have their view on the source of HIV and start of AIDS. But how precisely one can state will not be said. There are numerous ideas about the origin of the HIV virus but none of them have been verified. 

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No record of HIV virus exists in history and it has been said that it started in central Africa and from there it started spreading slowly and slowly. Read: Need for Pre-marital AIDS test

HIV was identified in 1983.Earlier the researchers found that chimps acquired the disease from eating one of their favorite preys: monkeys. Read: Mom to Child Transmission of HIV

"Chimps are 98 percent genetically the same as humans, and they do not get sick from HIV. This is an especially important clue for developing an HIV vaccine", the researchers said. "Understanding what prevents chimps from getting sick would help scientists duplicate resistance to AIDS symptoms in humans."

Researchers say, "Chimps likely picked up viruses from both types of monkeys, and eventually a hybrid formed". The researchers said, "That probably happened tens of thousands of years ago, which may have given chimps an opportunity to evolve resistance to an AIDS-like disease." Read: Prevent HIV and AIDS

Some researchers say that virus related to HIV is found in monkeys in Africa. Many scientists believe that the first humans got the HIV virus from monkeys by eating them as food or being scratched or bitten by them. It is possible that during preparation of the food or butchering the meat the infected blood could have entered the human body through a cut. Read: Treat HIV/AIDS

A Canadian flight attendant, nicknamed "patient zero" dies of AIDS as he had sexual connection with several of the first victims of AIDS. It is believed that he is responsible for introducing the virus into the general population. By 1984 there are almost 8000 confirmed cases in the US, with 3700 confirmed deaths.

 

It is also said that the AIDS virus was first discovered by Robert at the National Cancer Institute in April 1984.

The two 'co-discoverers' of HIV continue to disagree about the origin of HIV and the birthplace of AIDS till date.

In the middle 1980s the Human Virus (HIV) was identified by French and American scientists as virus that leads to AIDS.

During Mid - late 1990s there was significant increase in HIV in drug users due to injection of drug, Aboriginal peoples, women, and street-involved youth.

Today, after so much of study and investigations about the source of HIV and start of AIDS the major goal of the scientists is to decrease and eradicate the HIV virus that causes the incurable AIDS.