How did AIDS/HIV begin in humans?

The virus first existed as a Simian Inmmunodeficiency Virus, a virus that occurs in more than 20 species of African primates. It is thought that SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees in Southern Cameroon was transmitted to hunters around 1930. The interspecies transmission mutated the virus into HIV-1 Group M, the type of HIV/AIDS virus that is responsible for most cases of AIDS worldwide.

You can read interesting articles about this in BBC news 25 May 2006 (http://news.bbc.co.uk)/ and in Science 28 July 2006 313(5786):462-466.

i heard a monkey bit a human hunter and gave him HIV and he went home and had intercourse with people

if you have a genie called delta 13 you are suppose to be immune but still a carrier of it

and did you know HIV attacks just like the black death

The most supported theory is that it was spread to human poachers who were hunting monkeys, probably in Cameroon in the 1950s.

I heard and im shure this is how aids started was it was a diseas between monkeys some were in africa and you know how guys are perverts a human got infected from a monkey then from there it obiously passes along with the gay ppl than to us Straight innocent ppl. no seriously im not joking i heard this on news you can look it up

im no bs no 1

Common sense had the right idea; there is a disease that occurs among chimps, which are sometimes killed and used for food. They call it "bush meat". Obviously, someone liked theirs rare.

Natives eating Chimps along the Congo river which carried

the disease...

i am not sure but i think it started when man and monkey had intercourse, i am not positive though despite the fact that i am 'smart' and wear glasses for reading.

someone went to africa, had sex with a monkey, contracted hiv, came back home and had a bunch of gay sex in the san fransisco bath houses.

It occurred through beastiality -- when a man got horny and had intercourse with a monkey.

That man, then had sex with other humans and it spread from there.

Only God knows.