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Who was the first person infected with HIV and how were they infected? Chris Williams, Birmingham UK We will surely never know who or how, but we can speculate. There was a great deal of conjecture in the late 1980's about Patient Zero, identified as Gaetan Dugas - a Canadian flight attendant who purportedly knowingly infected as many as 250 men a year on both sides of the Atlantic - said to have singlehandedly started the epidemic, but most of this is now largely discredited. Anyhow, no one ever believed he was the first to be infected. Computer models have estimated that the first human infection occurred about 1930, give or take 20 years. The earliest known infection of an identified human being dates back to 1959, found in a plasma sample taken from an adult male living in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). As to how, most of the loose talk on the street seems to assume sex between a human and a chimp, as the HIV-1 virus is almost identical to a simian virus found in chimpanzees. A human eating a chimp seems just as likely, and some evidence suggests that it may have occurred iatrogenically when chimps were used in developing a polio vaccine for humans. For more, see Annabel Kanabus and Sarah Allen's study at www.avert.org/origins.htm. Professor William Dunlap, Quinnipiac Univ., Hamden, Connecticut USA It's unlikely we'll ever know. It was recently determined that a sailor who died of an "unknown disease" in 1959 probably died of AIDS. How many there were before him, who they were and how they were infected is likely to remain a mystery. Simon Blake, Shrewsbury England While HIV was killing people in Africa long before it ever affected the rest of the world the first case to make headlines was that of a 10 (?) year old boy named Ryan White. He contracted the disease by a blood transfusion. Following, research facilites cranked out information that now HIV could be transmitted from mother to baby, blood transfusions, & swapping of any bodily fluids including saliva. And, that it would strike anyone of any race, religion, credo and sexuality. Kelly Yates, Denton,TX USA HIV stems from Simian Immunedefficiency Virus (SIV) which is known to be present in Central and Southern African chimpanzees. The chimpanzees caught it in turn from monkeys which sometimes form part of chimpanzee diet. At some point - thought to be at least before 1930 - humans ate some chimpanzees infected with the SIV virus which mutated into HIV. It might be difficult to say who was actually the first to catch it; in fact there may have been several simultaneous infections. The bush meat trade in Africa is very prevalent. Terence Hollingworth, Blagnac France This is total urban myth answer with no scientific back-up, but I heard that HIV was a virus that passed from the animal kingdom to humans through somebody having sex with . . .either a pig or a monkey, I forget which. Mary, Glasgow Scotland HIV is believed to have been passed into humans sometime in the 50s or 60s in Africa. Research into Hepatitis was being conducted on liver tissue from primates which was contaminated with the then unknown Simian Immunodeficiency Virus and transplanted into a human patient. CA , by the sea Patient zero was an Air Canada flight attendent. he contracted hiv while in Africa in the late 70's. According to sources he was the first person to transmit the virus intercontentally. Daniel, Toronto Canada The sailor who died in Manchester in 1959 is not now thought to have had HIV: the first recorded case is believed to be that of a Norwegian sailor who contracted the disease in the early 1960s, passed it on to his wife and daughter (the latter was born with it in 1967), and died in 1976. There is an article by E Hooper, in the BMJ (315) 1997, which has information on both cases. Jude, Aberdeen UK "The River", by Edward Hooper, speculates that HIV was transmitted to humans from polio vaccinations carried out in Zaire. If I rember correctly, the vaccins were grown in dishes of chimp or monkey livers; these could have been infected.

I think the evidence for this thesis was inconclusive. Steve, Nyon, Switzerland I was told that HIV was contracted first by someone in the Bible. God forgave Abel for what he did but left him with the disease to indicate what happens when you're unfaithful to your spouse. Mi-Mi Tremble-Newton, Savannah,Ga U.S.A Sir, thank you. Sir, I think, first aids is discover in south africa. It comes man_chimpanzee. Who is this man? Please give the name for this man. Please give the answer sir . mathu, coimbatore INDIA Humans had sex with chimpanzees in South Africa in 1959 which spread aids around the world. Barun Rajput, Richhapura Jaitpur Kalan India AIDS is a man made disease that was developed in the bio-chemical lab on Plum Island near New York. It was first developed in 1965 by German Nazi scientists that were brought across after WW II. The Candida Maltosa bacteria was infected into a cell and this first version of AIDS was consciously injected into a human being. The 'final' version of AIDS was developed on Plum Island in 1979 based upon the Candida Dubliniensis fungal bacteria and once again consciously injected into a unknowing human being from Canada over 1979 and 1980. This is where the real AIDS epidemic started. Syl, Spain AIDS is a man made disease that was developed in the bio-chemical lab on Plum Island near New York. It was first developed in 1965 by German Nazi scientists that were brought across after WW II. The Candida Maltosa bacteria was infected into a cell and this first version of AIDS was consciously injected into a human being. The 'final' version of AIDS was developed on Plum Island in 1979 based upon the Candida Dubliniensis fungal bacteria and once again consciously injected into a unknowing human being from Canada over 1979 and 1980. This is where the real AIDS epidemic started. Adino, Benue Makurdi HIV is believed to have been passed into humans sometime in the 50s or 60s in Africa. Research into Hepatitis was being conducted on liver tissue from primates which was contaminated with unknown Simian Immunodeficiency Virus and transplanted into a human patient tMAN, Lagos Nigeria After a thorough research from different sources, HIV/AIDS still remains a mystery as to who first got infected, how and when. But it is seemed as it being virus contracted from Simian Immunedeficiency Virus (SIV) which is of chimps. Then, who was the first to have had it translated form that into Human Immunedefficiency Virus, which is believed that the bush meat trade in Africa must have had a chimps infected with SIV slaughtered for human consumption. Moreover, Patient Zero, a Canadian Air Flight Attendant contracted HIV in the late 70's whiles in Africa. Others also assume that it would have been a sexual intercourse between a human and a chimp. HIV is still a mystery yet unknown since the right source of origin is unknown. Bryte E. Gilberts, Accra Ghana The first known case in North American was a 16 year old named Robert Rayford. He presented with fever, all manner of warts and sores, swollen testicles, and a depleted immune system. The year was 1968, and doctors were baffled. Rayford died only a year after presenting to doctors. Tests were performed on a stored tissue sample in 1987, and showed antibodies for all 9 strains of HIV known at that time. It was suspected that he was a male prostitute. Sheldon, San Ramon USA Before 1980s people of RSA were just seeing HIV on TV. The virus was not in RSA by that time. Stanley Matjila, Soshanguve South Africa Steve Eddeson. Monkeys had sex with rats in the sewers. Was there a case of aids in Manchester in the 1950s? Jason Johnson, Blackpool, UK The black death was the start of the HIV virus that killed many people. Through the rats' genetics to wild rats and domesticated rats, even the lab rats that they test on for human resources, can all have a way of carrying the virus and passed through to the public infecting them with the HIVAids virus resulting in the Aids epidemic. Inside Area 51 there are things we don't - and never will - know of. There are other secret locations. They could make all sorted of illnesses and diseases which we can pick up from the most everyday things and yet we are led to believe HIV/Aids has been introduced and spread between humans. Chemical warfare is made and used to destroy the human race without the noticeable destruction of conventional warfare. Tina Beddows, Blackpool, UK That racist who says it started in South Africa is an idiot. Senzi Kumalo, Gauteng, South Africa Guys why can't we develop a better chemical that can remover that rubbish diseases. Ramafalo Phillip Mashatole, Giyane, South Africa The HIV virus is spread by blood, semen, and other types of body fluids. Animal and human cd4 cells are incompatible with each other, the insane statements are just that insane. It is not a gay or straight disease. It is a blood disease, plain and simple James Taylor , phoenix usa The earliest documented case in the world comes from 1959 in Congo. The earliest documented case in Europe was in a Norwegian family as the father was a sailor who got infected in Africa in the early 60s and then infected his wife,who infected their daughter under birth. They all died in the early 70s. The first documented cases in USA is more difficult since the Robert Rayford case in the 60s still is an enigma,but some of the earliest cases happend in New York when a teacher named Rick Wellikoff got sick in 1979. Lars Eriksen, Oslo, Norway According to the CDC the highest risk sexual activity (receptive anal) poses a 50 in every 10,000 risk of transmission. That's 0.5 %. I'm sorry but i don't get the bushmeat theory. I thought HIV died within seconds of it being exposed to air. Did some hunter kill a chimpanzee and within seconds bite into it for a quick raw lunch and somehow he had a cut in his mouth and got orally infected with SIV? What a load of b****ks. Furthermore (and bearing in mind how difficult it is to transmit) it had to evolve from SIV to HIV in one or two generations into other towns and then across borders. Plus why was the first outbreak only in 3 american cities roughly at the same time and not all over the world? HIV or whatever it is is a man made product of monkey kidney smoothies that idiot virus hunters played around with in their labs and injected into the gay population in 1979 under the label of a hepatitis b vaccine who unsurprisingly all started dropping like flies within 12 months. Ben, Liverpool, UK



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