AIDS originated from chimpanzees, so what did the first person who got AIDS to do to an ape?
Preventive measures for AIDS
The neat and solemn hospital was still full of people, during which people came and went, all busy with their respective conditions. At dusk, before the hospital closed, a special person came to the blood drawing station. Seeing him, a small change occurred in the eyes of the doctors and nurses. I would rather the medicine on the shelf to produce dust, but I hope the people in the world are unharmed. As we all know, the task of doctors and nurses is to save diseases and cure people, save lives and help the injured, but they all do not like a kind of people. These people look no different from ordinary people, and what they carry in their bodies can make normal people afraid to approach. They are people with AIDS, the body carries the HIV virus can reduce the human immune system, thus destroying the health of people, serious cases can directly lead to the death of people.
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HIV can be transmitted through blood, mother-to-child and sexual transmission. Once people are infected with the disease, there is no way to reverse it. The devastating effects of AIDS are irreversible, causing not only physical pain but also great emotional stress. In the 1880s, the first report on AIDS was published in the American weekly Morbidity and Mortality. At that time, people were not aware that it was an infectious disease, only that it was a problem related to immune deficiency. Initially, the patients presented with a few blue-purple herpes with a burning sensation. In addition the lungs suffered from inflammation, which caused breathing difficulties for the patients.
At first people didn't care, but when AIDS spread widely, it caused the CDC to be alerted. Large numbers of patients were sent to hospitals for medical observation. However, people were never able to scientifically understand what kind of disease it really was. Faced with purple herpes and some sarcomas, doctors had to resort to removing necrotic skin and tissue. However, this violent means did not result in an effective treatment.
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For further research, the authorities found a special AIDS patient. His name was Gaertan Dugar, and he was the 1st patient to come forward and admit that he had AIDS. He not only provided the experts with all the information about the partners he had had sex with, but also followed the trail to find out all the people they had contact with, thus finding one of the sources for the hospital to spread the virus. Based on the overall knowledge of this group of patients, the authorities gradually came to an embryonic understanding of AIDS - acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Although Duggar's information provided the necessary information to solve the disease, he is considered a great credit to the medical community to break the disease and eliminate it. But the masses did not think so, and they treated him as a pathogen that spread HIV and launched an intense attack on his life. The poor Dougal had to endure not only the physical pain of the virus but also the mental torture. At the age of 31, he ended his humble life.
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Nature once published an article arguing that AIDS originated in chimpanzees and was originally spread among animals. So what happened to the first man who got AIDS, and what exactly did he do to the gorilla? Researchers later discovered that a local man with AIDS came from Cameroon and was a long-time hunter. It is speculated that he may have contracted HIV from a blood infection that occurred while fighting with chimpanzees. The infected hunter had sex with other people, and then spread the virus out.
In addition to these infections, the popular sale of blood in the last century has also become an important way to spread HIV. During the Vietnam War many blood traffickers sold blood with HIV in their hands to some armies; and in some remote and poor areas, blood trafficking has become a norm, and it is common for HIV infection to occur during the process of blood drawing. As of 2018, the number of AIDS patients in China has exceeded 800,000, and if effective preventive measures are not taken, then it will have a strong impact on people's normal life.
Conclusion
After getting the facts straight, a series of scientific measures should be taken against AIDS. Although there is still no cure for HIV, there are ways to keep it at bay. One of the most famous is cocktail therapy. Cocktail therapy actually allows patients to use fusion inhibitors to fight the virus and slow down the rate of destruction of the body's immune system, thus prolonging the patient's life. In the case of HIV, the only way to tackle it with a scientific approach is to understand it correctly. Extreme measures should not be taken against these poor patients because of the pressure of public opinion.
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