Did HIV Come from queers?
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What a great guy you are!  Your mom must be proud.
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I heard it came from some natives engaging in sexual contact with the monkeys, getting infected with the virus and passing it on to a human partner.I have absolutely no refference material for this speculation tho, it's something i heard a long time ago.
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No. I'm not sure where you're making the connection with that, but you get intestinal parasites from eating infected foods. You get HIV by coming into contact with the body fluids of an infected person.
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false.  it means they will develop aids.  hiv causes aids.
229556
I have two friends who are both HIV positive both are gay males. One had full blown aids when I first met him and the other had just found out.This was about 4 years ago. I myself just found out 2 years ago that I am HIV. I always thought I was very careful sexually. I almost always used condoms. I suspect I got it from sharing needles(very stupid, I know)while shooting up cocaine which I'm happy to say I have not touched in a year.
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AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.\n\nYou can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.\n\nThere are two main ways this can happen:\n\n1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).\n\n2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.\n\nYou CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.
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I think it steams from when people though only gays and druggies can get HIV/AIDS.\n\nmany of those people didn't get correct in this thought and though it to their kids (and other people's kids)\n\nadd this to the fact that are school system have been cutting back on sex ed\n\nplus (but connect to the first one) there was a guy that wrote a book about him living a secret life where he cheated on the lady he was with a bunch of men.  That has been getting a lot of press (at least in the Black media outlets) that help fuel this ideal of bisexual men are the reason straight women get HIV/AIDS
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No one knows for certain just who had the first case of AIDS.  However, there are descriptions of patients who have immuno-deficiency illnesses as early as 1917; these immunodeficiency illnesses may have been early cases of AIDS.  These cases were in the jungle areas of Uganda.  \n\nThe origin of AIDS is unknown, but from research it is believed to be a crossover disease from apes.  In the apes it may have been a minor illness like a cold, but crossover diseases are much more dangerous when they move to another species -- the new species has not adapted and developed partial immunities to the disease.  \n\nThere is no cure for AIDS and never has been.  The disease works by causing the body's own cells to attack itself and then using the body's own energy to create more viruses.  This is very difficult to fight, because any medicine has to be very specific to fight the virus within the cell without hurting the cells.  There are medicines that attempt to keep the viruses from being created; these can help the victim to recover a little but cannot eliminate the virus entirely.  There is not cure.\n\nIt became widely spread because of the trade ships.  In all truthfulness, the sailors of the trade ships helped the spread the disease.  This is why you will find it in its highest concentration along the coasts of the Indian Ocean.
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I think they are born, many of those who "change" at later stage of their lives have always been gay they just didn´t want to accept it and be brave enough to tell the whole world about it, indeed it was originated when they were procreated.... =)
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AIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. It got into humans by a similar route as some classic Old World infectious diseases. The ancient Old World was the incubator of many diseases like smallpox because it had large human populations in close association with large animal populations, especially those that lived in herds. AIDS followed a similar path.\n\nThe requirements were:\n\na large human population, \na large nearby population of a host animal, \na pathogen that eventually mutates to spread from animal to human, \ninteraction between the species to transmit enough of it to humans to establish a human foothold, which may take millions of individual exposures, \na mutation of same pathogen that can spread from human to human, \nsome method that allows the pathogen to disperse widely so it does not "burn out" in a local population of humans. \nSuch requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu (which actually originated in the New World at Ft. Riley, Kansas). Such conditions MAY eventually be replicated with the bird flu.\n\nAIDS viruses originated in primates as far as is known. Possible ways for this virus to have originally infected humans include the hunting and eating of the original primate species; a bite would be another possible route. The viruses arguably would have remained rare medical curiosities but for 20th century conditions such promiscuity, widespread use of hypodemic needles in medicine and drug addiction, tourist travel, vast economic growth, and transportation improvements such as railroads, air travel, trucking, and shipping. These social and economic changes allowed the viruses to spread worldwide and infect millions of people.\n\nAnother currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS was discussed in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article by freelance journalist Tom Curtis. He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article motivated another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to probe more deeply into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which SIV crossed into humans to become HIV, and thus to start the human AIDS pandemic, some time between 1957 to 1959. See OPV AIDS hypothesis.\n\nIt appears that either HIV existed in very low levels in the United States in periods prior to 1981, or it may have gone extinct in the United States at times, with the present infection established in the USA about 1976. HIV in Africa likewise was at first at levels too low to be noticed. The spread of the infection in both America and Africa was assisted by changing sexual mores related to rapid urbanization and economic change in the late 20th century. In the United States and Africa HIV was at first mostly found only in residents of large cities. The new urban lifestyle fostered greater sexual activity as it often included the breaking of old family and tribal bonds, as indivduals moved to start new lives far from their points of origin. The infection is now more widespread in rural areas, and has appeared in regions such as China and India, where it was previously not evident.\n\nTwo species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa. [1]\n\nBoth species of the virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are believed to have originated in West-Central Africa and jumped species (zoonosis) from primates to humans. HIV-1 evolved from a Simian Immuno
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Why would you be more cautious if you were gay? HIV is a virus that does not know your sexual preference. You live under a common misconception that it does! If anything the majority of gay people that I have come across are more aware of the dangers of HIV than heterosexuals because like you they believe that HIV is a gay only illness, and it isn't! As for having random sex with strangers who are you to judge somebody Else's sex life, you can catch HIV even if you are in a long term relationship. Yes your friend may have taken stupid risks but now he is paying the price and has to live with that every day. Maybe you should spend less time in ignorance and more time in compassion. Your friend needs you don't let him down! Good Luck.
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no.only fluid in the body contains hiv.but only fluid like semen or breastmilk contains enough hiv to make the non-hiv infected
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Uhmm... no... hmmm... it is really almost impossible for a virus to be made... we still dont have the capability to produce life and what comes with it... THe only thing I can think of is genetical mutation of virus... but its really hard to mutate something... especially a tiny virus....\n\nI heard stories that HIV came from a doctor and a monkey... who copulated.. but i'm not really certain with the credibility of this... but if this is true... it could have mutated a virus, that is now what we call HIV... O.o\n\nBut... nonetheless... I believe that no person is stupid enough to MAKE a virus... that CAN be a threat to his very life... ^^
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You can get infected with a different strain of the virus.  The HIV virus mutants.
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LOL!  Homosexualism? That's the most creative made-up word I've ever seen on Yahoo! Answers (and that's saying something).  Anyway, homosexuals make up just over 4% of the population, so yes, it is statistically abnormal.  However, there are many heterosexuals who suffer from equally striking 'perversions', such as various fetishes.  Unfortunately, medical science lacks a sufficiently advanced understanding of human sexuality to really address these issues.  Okay, that was kinda' vague and rambling, but I just couldn't resist popping in to a question with the word 'homosexualism' in the title ;)
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because gays have anal sex and to be blunt, that area tears easily, giving infected fluids an entrance into your body .\n\n  How is HIV Transmitted?    \n\nHIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through:\n\nBlood (including menstrual blood) \nSemen \nVaginal secretions \nBreast milk \nBlood contains the highest concentration of the virus, followed by semen, followed by vaginal fluids, followed by breast milk.\n\n* Activities That Allow HIV Transmission\n\nUnprotected sexual contact \nDirect blood contact, including injection drug needles, blood transfusions, accidents in health care settings or certain blood products \nMother to baby (before or during birth, or through breast milk) \nSexual intercourse (vaginal and anal): In the genitals and the rectum, HIV may infect the mucous membranes directly or enter through cuts and sores caused during intercourse (many of which would be unnoticed). Vaginal and anal intercourse is a high-risk practice.\n\nOral sex (mouth-penis, mouth-vagina): The mouth is an inhospitable environment for HIV (in semen, vaginal fluid or blood), meaning the risk of HIV transmission through the throat, gums, and oral membranes is lower than through vaginal or anal membranes. There are however, documented cases where HIV was transmitted orally, so we can't say that getting HIV-infected semen, vaginal fluid or blood in the mouth is without risk. However, oral sex is considered a low risk practice.\n\nSharing injection needles: An injection needle can pass blood directly from one person's bloodstream to another. It is a very efficient way to transmit a blood-borne virus. Sharing needles is considered a high-risk practice.\n\nMother to Child: It is possible for an HIV-infected mother to pass the virus directly before or during birth, or through breast milk. Breast milk contains HIV, and while small amounts of breast milk do not pose significant threat of infection to adults, it is a viable means of transmission to infants.\n\nThe following "bodily fluids" are NOT infectious:\n\nSaliva \nTears \nSweat \nFeces \nUrine
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WHERE?\nThe question of exactly where the transfer took place, and where the 'epidemic' officially first developed has always been controversial. Some have suggested that it is dangerous to even try to find out, as AIDS has frequently been blamed on an innocent person or group of individuals in the past. However, scientists remain keen to find the true origin of HIV, as most agree it is important to understand the virus and its epidemiology in order to fight it.\n\nSo did it definitely come from Africa?\nGiven the evidence we have already looked at, it is likely that Africa was indeed the continent where the transfer of HIV to humans first occurred (monkeys from Asia and South America have never been found to have SIVs that could cause HIV in humans). However, who exactly spread the virus from Africa , to America and beyond remains a mystery. It is quite possible that separate 'pockets' of the virus could have been developing in a number of different countries years before the first cases were ever officially identified, making it virtually impossible to trace one single source.