who was the first person to get aids?
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The AIDS epidemic was discovered June 18, 1981, when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five gay men in Los Angeles. Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not gay. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome.\n\nThree of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:\n\n1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n2. HIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.\n3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.\n\n\nHope that helped!
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As Alabama Girl says above, the only case was David Acer. Unfortunately he died of AIDS before the cause of transmission could be truly established. However, considering how difficult it is to transmit HIV from dentist to patient, and considering that (as I remember) a couple of the patients were having negligible treatment. it has been hypothesised that he deliberately infected them. Sort of a revenge on the world. There was a book written about it (don't know the name).
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It came from some sick bugger who had sex with an animal in Africa.  I think it was an African Ape/Monkey
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Where did it probably originate?\n\nSince AIDS was discovered in 1983, researchers have made significant progress in their understanding of the disease.  Two distinct types of HIV have been identified thus far.  HIV-1 and HIV-2 are thought to have a common ancestor and new evidence suggests that the viruses diverged sometime before the 1940s.  Despite the considerable knowledge researchers have gained so far, a definite source for the HIV virus continues to elude them.\n\nThough first identified in the United States, evidence points to a large region of Central Africa, including Zaire, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and the Central African Republic, as the possible location of the origin of the AIDS pandemic.\n\nIt is now generally accepted that HIV is a descendant of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) (simian meaning monkey.)  Certain SIVs closely resemble HIV-1 and HIV-2.  In February 1999 it was announced that a group of researchers from the University of Alabama had studied frozen tissue from a chimpanzee and found that the SIV it carried was almost identical to HIV-1.  It is claimed by the researchers that this shows that these chimpanzees were the source of HIV-1, and that the virus at some point crossed species from chimpanzee to human.\n\nHIV-2 has an almost exact counterpart in a virus of the sooty mangabey, a type of African monkey.  Western Africa, the habitat of the sooty mangabey, is also the area where vast majority of HIV-2 cases are located.  HIV-2s connection to the sooty mangabey is probably the most compelling evidence for animal to man transfer of HIV.\n\nThis possible reservoir of infection and the type of human behaviour in certain areas noted here could have induced the transfer necessary to develop an endemic area of HIV infection from which a subsequent epidemic could emerge.\n\nIn addition to the theories of mainstream scientists, many other hypotheses have been put forward.  Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, a small, but well-known group of scientists argue that HIV does not cause AIDS.  They contend that AIDS is brought about by lifestyle factors such as drug use, inadequate nutrition, and contraction of multiple STDs.  Among the general population, a significant percentage believes that HIV is manmade.  The supposed motivations for the deliberate creation of HIV range from a plot by the US government to wipe out African-Americans, to a biological weapon developed by the Russian Scientists.  Although many would dismiss such theories, they are widespread and may have important ramifications for treatment and prevention of HIV.\n\nWhen did the virus (HIV-1) probably jump the specie barrier?\n\nScientists have long recognised the ability of certain viruses and other diseases to pass from animals to humans.  This process is referred to as Zoonosis. Once an animal disease has infected people, it may then be passed from human to human.\nVarious means have been suggested through which SIV virus might have passed from primitives to humans.  One theory is that the virus could have been transferred to humans while sooty mangabeys or chimpanzees were butchered for food or kept as pets.  These chimpanzees are hunted in a very bloody way and eaten raw or sometimes people drink their blood.  Another theory is based on particular ritualistic behaviour among natives living in remote central Africa, which involves the use of monkey blood in sexual customs.\n\nThe most controversial theories contended that medical science had played a role in introducing HIV into the human population.  The most well known of the human error theories is that of polio vaccines, which were given to many Africans in the 1950s, could have been contaminated with HIV, as the vaccines were prepared using monkey kidneys.\n\nTo work out when the virus jumped the specie barrier we can look at three of the earliest known instances of HIV infections:\n\n-HIV found in a tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.  He had sa
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Humans are the only known animals that can carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
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firstly, you dont get AIDS you get HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS. for HIV to become aids it takes about 9 to 10 years.\n\nsecondly i think answers to french kissing was good enough (especially the one by scorpio_draconis, which i will repeat)\n\n"Yes, and no. It depends on the given circumstances. AIDS is a "Blood-transferred" disease, not saliva. However, if one who is infected has an open sore/ canker/ cold sore in his/her mouth, it is possible (Although extremely improbable) that they can transmit the disease that way. "\n\nbut ill add that the chances are greater if both sides have a sore/cut/open wound etc. \n\nnow onto oral sex (or licking as you put it)\n\naccording to a study in the US (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5402a1.htm)\nchances of catching HIV is one in ten thousand (1/10,000) if you are performing oral sex on someone else, and one in twenty thousand (1/20,000) if somebody is performing oral sex on you (either case the person who receives oral sex, rather than performing it, is a male. so there are no "official" figures for performing oral sex on a vagina)\n\nin short, yes you can catch HIV from both french kissing and oral sex (performing or receiving) which may eventually develop into AIDS.
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I know that in 1984 AIDS still wasn't something the general public was aware of because I had to have a surgery and the only reason my mom knew to ask for the blood to be tested was because of a chance encounter with a woman at the mall who knew about AIDS.  \n\nWhen they first discovered it, I don't know.  I would guess that they probably started noticing simularites between people's symptoms during the late 70s or so then started doing testing which usually takes a while and it became known as AIDS in the medical community by the late70s or early80s.  You could probably google it.  \n\nI did know someone (my dad's friend) that was diagnosed, he died about 5 years ago.  Treatment methods to keep HIV from progressing to full blown AIDS have improved substantially since then, but it's still debilitating and incurable.
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any exchange of fluids is a gamble but usually a  sore or wound is necessary to get aids but if you go ask about the most recent test they have had and get tested for free at the city or county clinic and a another sure way to get aids is blood if one of you has a sore in the mouth or anus and exchages blood over the wound then its more likely to infect than saliva since salive is acidic and has some digestive emsymes
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click here:http://www.bestandworst.com/r/?id=4429\nhttp://www.gibbsmagazine.com/Where%20AIDS%20Came%20From.htm\nhttp://www.alldeaf.com/topic-debates/25274-where-did-aids-come.html\nhttp://beatnikboy.tripod.com/aids.htm\nhttp://www.natap.org/2002/9retro/day0.htm\n\n\nThe origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine programme being blamed. So what it the truth? Just where did AIDS come from?\n\nThe first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (more about this period can be found on our history page). A number of gay men in New York and San Francisco suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS was made soon after. While some were initially resistant to the connection (and indeed remain so today), there is now clear evidence to prove that HIV does cause AIDS. So, in order to find the source of AIDS, it is necessary to look for the origin of HIV, and find out How, When and Where HIV first began to cause disease in humans.
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YES! i think the first case was reported in 1910 when a white woman had sex with a black man and white man within a short time period. she gave birth to one white child and one mulatto child.
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we cant....it is a monstrous task, and one that will not be eradicated until a cure is found.  Most of these people do not fully understand what aids is, or don't even know it exist, or don't believe it is real.  I was watching a discovery channel presentation and they asked this African woman if she believed she could get aids, her response, "Only bad people get aids"
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Not to fear.  You cannot get HIV or Aids this way....I PROMISE!!  The way you get Aids/HIV is through blood contact or mixing body fluids, such as intercourse or a blood transfusion with infected blood (which is rare these days as all blood is now tested). You can also get Aids/HIV by sharing the same needle which drug addicts sometimes do.\n\nYOU ARE NOT INFECTED.  The boy who did this to you is a mental case, probably.  Stay clear from him. You should tell your parents about this incident. As a parent, I know I would want to know if this happened to one of my children. If I was your parent, I would call HIS parents so hopefully it will never happen again.  Please consider doing this.  Thanks for writing.
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According to Avert, 441,380 men have AIDS as a result of male to male sex. No women have it as a result of female to female sex. \n\nhttp://www.avert.org/usastatg.htm
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That's not true.\n\nHIV 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. From this point, the virus ultimately spread to the rest of the world.\n\nIf a cross species jump is indeed the origin of HIV then the following conditions would most likely be required:\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.\n\nSuch requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu.\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.\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 Immunodeficiency Virus (SIVcpz) found in the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes. DNA sequencing indicates that HIV-1 (group M) entered the human population in the early 20th century, probably sometime between 1915 and 1941. HIV-2 crossed species from a different strain of SIV, this one found in sooty mangabeys (an Old World monkey) of Guinea-Bissau.
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it all started when God created the heavens and the earth.  He didnt want people to have sex between species so he made the aids virus.  well some genius in africa thought it would be fun to have sex with a monkey.  he got aids, then he went and spread it to others. now it is a Pandemic
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Aids is a type of diasease.  It is not really contageous...  But, if someone gets a cut, and somebody else "touchs" the blood and get into the body, they are now infected...  Now, that person hads HIV from the person who got a cut.  To get HIV, which is a first base of AIDS..  a HIV has to enter a person through blood, or other ways... By blood is mainly...  **sorry but, Also, having sex with someone who has HIV will also transfer the germs..\n\nHIV will soon develope into what you are wonder about, AIDS\n\nAIDS is a farther stage HIV.  AIDS is consider when a person is going to die from HIV.   \n\nTo determine if a person has HIV, you can possible tell by if that person gets sick easily, and also a lot.  But, this is one way to get started in thinking if you do.  The best to determine is to find a specialist.  \n\n\n\nHere's the main answer\n\n\nIf one person hads AIDS or HIV, it can harm others by donating blood to others that they don't even know they have it.  Then, that would be 2 people that has HIV or AIDS.  Soon, if they give birth, that would be 4 and so on.(4th because marrage to give birth)  It is very important that you know everything about yourself before choosing to do something that can harm others.  If everyone wouldn't care, Aids and hiv would be everywhere and no one would be on earth.  This could do a lot of harm.
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It called AIDS, it's an STD and anyone of any race and gender can have it. AIDS is VERY harmful and makes you die young.  You can get it by having sex, injecting yourself with something that someone with AIDS has, and other things that pass through blood.