| Health care workers are often exposed through | | | | prevents chimps from getting sick would help |
| occupational accidents to HIV and other blood borne | | | | scientists duplicate resistance to AIDS symptoms in |
| diseases. Studies have found that prompt treatment | | | | humans.” |
| after exposures can reduce the number of persons | | | | "Chimps likely picked up viruses from both types of |
| who actually become infected from these accidents. | | | | monkeys, and eventually a hybrid formed". The |
| Health officials for years have tried to encourage HIV | | | | researchers said, "That probably happened tens of |
| testing through unconventional testing sites and | | | | thousands of years ago, which may have given |
| community outreach efforts at laundromats, beauty | | | | chimps an opportunity to evolve resistance to an |
| salons and convenience stores. Find more about your | | | | AIDS-like disease." |
| local San Diego STD Testing Clincis. | | | | Some researchers say that virus related to HIV is |
| Today all of us are aware of the terms HIV and | | | | found in monkeys in Africa. Many scientists believe |
| AIDS. The disease has killed millions of people | | | | that the first humans got the HIV virus from |
| worldwide and it is estimated that 40 million people | | | | monkeys by eating them as food or being scratched |
| are HIV infected. We were unaware of the HIV and | | | | or bitten by them. It is possible that during |
| AIDS till early 1980. Nobody knows from where the | | | | preparation of the food or butchering the meat the |
| virus came. It is all assumptions that scientists and | | | | infected blood could have entered the human body |
| researchers can make. Researchers have their view | | | | through a cut. |
| on the origin of HIV and start of AIDS. But how | | | | It is also said that the AIDS virus was first |
| exactly one can state cannot be said. There are | | | | discovered by Robert at the National Cancer Institute |
| many theories about the origin of the HIV virus but | | | | in April 1984. |
| none of them have been proved. | | | | In the middle 1980s the Human Virus (HIV) was |
| No record of HIV virus exists in history and it has | | | | identified by French and American scientists as virus |
| been said that it started in central Africa and from | | | | that leads to AIDS. |
| there it started spreading slowly and slowly. | | | | During Mid - late 1990s there was significant increase |
| Researches Made | | | | in HIV in drug users due to injection of drug, |
| HIV was identified in 1983.Earlier the researchers | | | | Aboriginal peoples, women, and street-involved youth. |
| found that chimps acquired the disease from eating | | | | Today, after so much of research and studies about |
| one of their favorite preys: monkeys. | | | | the origin of HIV and start of AIDS the main goal of |
| "Chimps are 98 percent genetically the same as | | | | the scientists is to reduce and eradicate the HIV |
| humans, and they do not get sick from HIV. This is | | | | virus that causes the incurable AIDS. We provide |
| an especially important clue for developing an HIV | | | | more information, visit your local STD Testing Clinics |
| vaccine", the researchers said. "Understanding what | | | | in SD CA. |