How did the virus in chimpanzees spread AIDS to black Africans and then to the world?
Virus in chimpanzees transmits AIDS to black Africans
Every December 1st is "World AIDS Day". On this day, international organizations in various countries will be called on to hold activities related to it, to publicize and popularize the knowledge of AIDS and how to prevent AIDS. Although today is not "World AIDS Day", I hope that through this article, I can popularize the danger of AIDS to everyone.
AIDS is a transmissible infectious disease. It is transmitted by the HIV virus (HIV). There are three modes of transmission: blood transmission, sexual transmission, and mother-to-child transmission.
This virus will destroy the human immune system, destroy a large number of "CD4T1 lymphocytes" in the human body, and make the immune function of the human body lose, and it is easy to contract various diseases, such as tuberculosis, enteritis, encephalitis, etc. At times, they are also infected with malignant tumors, and the mortality rate is extremely high. The scary thing is that many excellent medical researchers around the world have studied for several years, but still have not developed a drug that can treat AIDS.
It is also frightening that the incubation period of HIV is generally 8 to 9 years. At this stage, the human body will not be affected in any way and can work and live normally.
That means you don't know if you have HIV, and you don't know if someone else has HIV. Its incubation period can make people relax against it, which can lead to inadvertently contracting the untreatable virus.
According to the survey, 80% of the onset population is between the ages of 18 and 45, which is probably the age when sexual life is more active. There is a saying that goes, "Don't be afraid of thieves stealing, just be afraid of thieves thinking about it." AIDS is like this, if you let down your guard against it, one day it will enter your body and destroy your defense mechanism. This is why the "World AIDS Day" is established every year to publicize and popularize AIDS knowledge.
influx of AIDS
The AIDS virus (HIV) originated in Africa and was brought to the United States as a result of immigration. In 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 5 cases of AIDS patients, which was the first record of AIDS in the world. In 1982, when the virus was named "AIDS", the spread of AIDS began to go crazy, and it quickly spread to all continents.
In 1985, the first such case was discovered in my country. When a sick foreigner came to China to travel, he was admitted to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital at that time, but the person unfortunately died not long after the stay. After the diagnosis, it was found that the person died of AIDS. So far There are cases of AIDS in our country.
According to the research of professionals in various countries of the world, they have discovered the "close relative" SIV virus of HIV virus. This virus is also called "simian immunodeficiency virus". It comes from chimpanzees in Africa. When chimpanzees have SIV virus in their bodies, it is basically the same as the symptoms of HIV in humans. SIV will also attack chimpanzees in vivo. CD4 T cells" and thus suffer from various diseases.
So the question is, how did the virus in chimpanzees spread to Africans, and how did it affect the world?
Although many people on the Internet say that this is the fault of Africans, and it is the "disorderly sex" of Africans that caused the spread of AIDS, this is actually not the case.
Due to the climatic conditions and historical and cultural reasons at that time, the cultural level of Africans was lower than the global cultural level. In the era of colonial expansion of Western whites at that time, Africans could not resist the power of Western whites at all, and could only be enslaved, slaughtered and oppressed indefinitely.
But Africans are not without advantages, their physical fitness is better than the average person. Such advantages were indispensable in the era of lack of labor at that time. So capitalists see their abilities, treat them as their own slaves to fill the lack of labor, and trade them as goods, not as their own kind.
Capitalists think they are a class above them, so they don't deserve to live under the same roof, driving Africans into the mountains to live with chimpanzees. These Africans have no houses and no tools. In order to survive, they can only hunt like primitive people. With their low cultural level, they cannot distinguish what kinds of chimpanzees can eat and what kinds of chimpanzees cannot, which leads them to eat chimpanzees with the SIV virus, which became the "subtype of HIV" in their bodies.
Since AIDS was born, because AIDS is a chronic disease, no one found the problem at first. This has led to the convenience of transportation as the economy develops, and the spread of the virus is also facilitated. AIDS is like dividing cells, and it keeps increasing.
In the final analysis, it is human nature to cause disasters that would never have occurred. If there is no competition, if there is no oppression, if everyone is equal, then human beings will not easily contract AIDS, and more than 20 million people will not die of AIDS.
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