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Post by Director Troutman on Nov 2, 2007 5:29:21 GMT 1
What I'm curious about is how HIV and AIDS came to be. True, the only way to get HIV is through sex, sharing needles, or sharing blood (among other ways), but where did the whole thing start so long ago? The disease had to have come up somewhere in history before somebody had sex and passed it on to another, right? How did it just pop up? Its expected the disease came to America in the very late 1950's from Haiti, and the person whom had it was actually an employee from Africa (which was common in Haiti during the time). HOW that person gave to another no one knows for sure. One common theory is that the employee, being from Africa, may have been around primates that (potentially) carried the virus. Whether through a bite or whatnot, the transmission would be mutated in the human bloodstream and DNA, creating what is to primates probably nothing more than a bad case of the sniffles, into what it is to us. Of course, I'm just winging that from the top of my head and what I remember discussing once.
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Post by masadluffy on Nov 8, 2007 1:03:01 GMT 1
Since HIV is really similar to SIV (Simian immunodeficiency virus), one can infer then that:
Someone ate a monkey and ate it medium rare Someone had sex with a monkey Someone shared needles while on a heroin high with a monkey Someone got into a fist fight with a monkey and probably lost
I'll go with answer b, considering how fucked up we are as human beings.
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Post by John Smith on Nov 8, 2007 1:09:03 GMT 1
I would say, c closely followed b somewhere along the way comes d just with the human winning and thus resulting in a...
... But that's just me.
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