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Is there any truth to the myth that monkey contributed to the start of AIDS?


Is there any truth to the myth that monkey contributed to the start of AIDS?

I believe that scientists have found evidence that western African monkeys carry a virus very similar to AIDS, and that the current AIDS epidemic seems to have arisen in this same region, but I do not believe a direct link has been *proven.* Proof may have been discovered since I last looked into this.

It *has* been proven that AIDS existed in the 1940s in England - contracted by a British sailor whose ship had also harbored in western Africa. I believe he died shortly after he had returned to England, so the virus did not spread at that time. Having existed for so long, it seems unlikely that anyone could prove who had the virus first - humans or monkeys.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/...
It's true -- scientists have traced the ancestry of the virus that causes AIDS back to strains found in African monkeys.
many will say: "a man had sex with an ape which let to ADs" that is yet to be discovered.
yes gay monkeys cosed it
dont realy know
Does it matter? Once it's out there and in the human population there's no turning back.
it's not a myth.

watch a documentary-type movie called 'and the band played on.' it talks a lot about aids in the years when it was first discovered. very interesting movie!
in the 1920's in Congo the witchdoctors started to inject people in the groin with monkey blood to give them a boost. Whether or not it gave them a boost is unknown - but it did give them AIDS or HTLV3/STLV3. Then gay men took it to Haiti in the 60's and from there into SF in the late 70's.
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