THE ORIGIN OF HIV

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THE ORIGIN OF HIV


The first human to be diahnosed with HIV virus was from Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinsasha) in 1959. From from that year, the virus has continued to spread throughout the world population. Today, it is approximated that 36.7 million people are living with AIDS.

Researchers have come up with various theories concerning the origin of HIV virus. The first theory is that HIV originated from Chimpanzees from West Equatorial Africa. It is believed that Man got exposed to the                                             virus when hunters from these region got exposed to                                              infected blood of the primates.



Another theory came up in 1987 and it stated that HIV might have been caused by mass vaccination of smallpox. This theory states that HIV virus was deliberately contaminated with lab manufactured virus  so that it would spread to mass population.

Similar theories include that of Hepatitis B vaccination and Oral Polio Vaccine which attribute HIV's origin to the US government or its contractors.

These theories explains that the newly modified  virus was created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prisoners who had volunteered for the experiment in exchange for early release. When the prisoners were released, He further suggested that it was through these prisoners that the virus was spread to the population at large.

However, the vaccination theories have been discredited citing lack of scientific evidence from the scientific community

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