Posted on 05/25/2006 2:14:18 PM PDT by blam
It was probably someone butchering a chimp that nicked themselves with a knife and absorbed blood through the cut.
When was Clinton over there? :o)
HIV is the virus itself. HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
AIDS is the disease caused by the virus. AIDS = Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
In short, the HIV causes AIDS by gradually killing off the immune system. When you say someone "has HIV" that means that they have contracted the virus. When you say someone "has AIDS" that means that they are showing symptoms of immune system deficiency.
The reason why someone can have HIV but not yet have AIDS is simply because they have the virus (HIV) but it hasn't yet killed off enough of their immune system for them to show symptoms of immune deficiency (AIDS).
As for the chimps, they have a closely related virus called SIV, which means Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. It's correct that the chimps do not develop SAIDS (the chimp version of AIDS) from the SIV that is endemic to their species.
Generally speaking, different apes and monkeys have slightly different strains of SIV and they are adapted to the version endemic to their species, so it doesn't kill them. However, when primates contract a version that is not endemic to their species, they do typically get SAIDS and die.
What this basically means is that SIV has been around long enough that monkeys and apes that carry versions of it have developed resistance. By contrast, HIV is so new that very few humans appear to be resistant, though contrary to popular opinion some people are clearly resistant to infection by HIV, while others are clearly resistant to developing AIDS even if they contract HIV.
In other words, if enough time passed and HIV was not controlled or eliminated then presumably humans in general would adapt to it just like the apes and monkeys have adapted to SIV, and then HIV would not bother us anymore. However, this will require hundreds, if not thousands, of years of evolution before it happened.
chop the raw liver out of a chimp, grow smallpox vaccine on it, filter it, and squirt it into the mouths of millions of black Africans wanting to be immune from smallpox. Some of them are going to have cancer sores on their gums...
...That's Canker sores on their gums...
That thread of yours is where I got the idea I read all of your posts that I see Bill
thanks
Again with the monkeys!?
I used to think they were cute until I read what the Jungle Book had to say about them. I LMAO!
Mark
My first guess would be while butchering them, or eating improperly cooked meat.
Mark
I thought that HIV is the virus, while AIDS is the manifestation of symptoms. But I could be wrong. It happened once before.
Mark
So Cheetah was Patient Zero.
I guess what happens in Cameroon doesn't stay in Cameroon.
True enough. Not having much butchering experience (well, except of mice), I'd forgotten that there will be the inevitable misses with the blade!
Did it come from someone that was confused thinking see monkey, do monkey instead of monkey see, monkey do.
I always suspected that, but I thought even homosexual perverts would not be that gross.
But then again........
Patient Zero or SV-40 contaminated vaccines?
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