How did the gorillas in Africa spread AIDS to the locals and then to the world?
Gorillas in Africa pass AIDS to locals
The disease of AIDS is not terrible, because its transmission route is relatively single, through blood transmission, sexual contact transmission and vertical mother-to-child transmission. As long as you keep yourself clean and pay attention to protective measures, there is a high probability that you will not get AIDS. However, AIDS is still spreading on a large scale among human beings, and so far there is no cure.
AIDS is so powerful. In fact, the disease only spread among orangutans at the beginning. Even if humans get this disease by accident, it is inevitable. The AIDS virus has always existed in orangutans. As long as humans stay away from orangutans, there is a high probability that AIDS will not appear. But African tribes have the custom of killing orangutans, and they pull the orangutans they kill to sell in the market.
Everyone knows that it is safe to eat with someone with AIDS because AIDS is not transmitted through saliva. In other words, eating orangutan meat will not get AIDS. However, when someone is scratched, bitten, or touches the wound of the orangutan while killing the orangutan, they are also injured, and they will contract the virus from the orangutan. Just like Tianlei ignited the fire and let the ancient ape-man use the fire for the first time, such a small probability still happened.
Up to here, HIV is most spread in Africa. Africa is far away from the continents, it would be nice if they didn't leave Africa. The problem is that Africans don't come out, but Europeans and Americans are rushing to Africa. They wanted to enslave Africans, but they were enslaved by the virus. HIV first appeared in the United States, and then gradually became popular in other countries.
With the development of science and technology, even if it is cancer, scientists have a way to treat it. As long as it is detected early, cancer can survive. Only AIDS, scientists have never been able to come up with a radical solution, because HIV is too cunning. Other diseases are aimed at a certain part, and HIV is a comprehensive attack on people's immunity. You know, in order to survive, human beings have their own set of defense projects against viruses. HIV is like a hammer, one that smashes this protective cover.
Without the protective cover, it is possible that a small cold or a mouth ulcer can kill an AIDS patient. Therefore, if you go to understand the cause of death of AIDS patients, you will find all kinds of strange things, and the symptoms are not the same. This also makes it difficult to identify people with AIDS. The only feature of AIDS is that in the early stage, patients will have red spots on their bodies and are prone to fever and headache. So far, there have been only two cures for AIDS in the world, but their treatments cannot be replicated because they have developed genetic mutations that prevent AIDS from replicating in them.
In 1981, the United States announced the first AIDS cases, which was the official appearance of AIDS. After the incident, it caused great panic among the American people, especially the great misunderstanding of homosexuality. Why is this so? It turned out to be caused by the oolong time of patient 0.
Case No. 0, Duga, was a homosexual, and the media tried to exaggerate the homosexual disorder when reporting on him, as well as his case of bringing AIDS to the United States. In the panic, AIDS was described as a plague brought on by homosexuality. In fact, the Du family was not in the list of the first AIDS cases, nor was he case 0. The Du family is Canadian, and the CDC gave him the replacement number "Outside-of-California", abbreviated as 01. In the process of spreading, people mistakenly regard o as zero, resulting in this oolong.
It has been 40 years since the discovery of AIDS, and scientists have yet to discover a cure for AIDS. But the good news recently is that scientists have successfully developed a "functional cure", published in the journal Science. Whereas previous methods lead to chronic inflammation and liver damage, the latest methods are minimally harmful. Scientists experimented with monkeys, and after using drugs, the virus was indeed contained.
Regarding the research of scientists, some people doubt that it is too cruel to experiment with monkeys. It is not easy for humans to avoid AIDS, but monkeys have to actively infect and then let scientists study. Some people also say that this is impossible, HIV can be transmitted between humans and monkeys, and monkeys are the most similar to humans. Don't use monkeys, you can't use people to do experiments.
Of course, we can still have full confidence in the treatment of AIDS, at least from the inevitable death to now relying on drugs for a living, AIDS is no longer a terminal disease. With the development of science and technology to modern times, the terminal illness in ancient times is no longer a problem. I believe that AIDS can be cured in the future.
Throughout the history of HIV, from its appearance in the human body to its prevalence in various countries, the words "reverence for nature" are the words from the beginning to the end. The recently popular virus was not originally in the human body, but was also infected from animals. From AIDS to the recently popular virus, mankind has gone through countless disasters, and it is not a long memory.
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