Who was the first person infected with HIV
and how were they infected?
Chris Williams, Birmingham UK
We will surely never know who or how, but we
can speculate. There was a great deal of
conjecture in the late 1980's about Patient
Zero, identified as Gaetan Dugas - a Canadian
flight attendant who purportedly knowingly
infected as many as 250 men a year on both
sides of the Atlantic - said to have
singlehandedly started the epidemic, but most
of this is now largely discredited. Anyhow, no
one ever believed he was the first to be
infected. Computer models have estimated
that the first human infection occurred about
1930, give or take 20 years. The earliest known
infection of an identified human being dates
back to 1959, found in a plasma sample taken
from an adult male living in the Belgian Congo
(later Zaire and now the Democratic Republic
of the Congo). As to how, most of the loose talk
on the street seems to assume sex between a
human and a chimp, as the HIV-1 virus is
almost identical to a simian virus found in
chimpanzees. A human eating a chimp seems
just as likely, and some evidence suggests that
it may have occurred iatrogenically when
chimps were used in developing a polio vaccine
for humans. For more, see Annabel Kanabus
and Sarah Allen's study at www.avert.org/
origins.htm.
Professor William Dunlap, Quinnipiac Univ.,
Hamden, Connecticut USA
It's unlikely we'll ever know. It was recently
determined that a sailor who died of an
"unknown disease" in 1959 probably died of
AIDS. How many there were before him, who
they were and how they were infected is likely
to remain a mystery.
Simon Blake, Shrewsbury England
While HIV was killing people in Africa long
before it ever affected the rest of the world
the first case to make headlines was that of a
10 (?) year old boy named Ryan White. He
contracted the disease by a blood transfusion.
Following, research facilites cranked out
information that now HIV could be transmitted
from mother to baby, blood transfusions, &
swapping of any bodily fluids including saliva.
And, that it would strike anyone of any race,
religion, credo and sexuality.
Kelly Yates, Denton,TX USA
HIV stems from Simian Immunedefficiency
Virus (SIV) which is known to be present in
Central and Southern African chimpanzees. The
chimpanzees caught it in turn from monkeys
which sometimes form part of chimpanzee
diet. At some point - thought to be at least
before 1930 - humans ate some chimpanzees
infected with the SIV virus which mutated into
HIV. It might be difficult to say who was
actually the first to catch it; in fact there may
have been several simultaneous infections. The
bush meat trade in Africa is very prevalent.
Terence Hollingworth, Blagnac France
This is total urban myth answer with no
scientific back-up, but I heard that HIV was a
virus that passed from the animal kingdom to
humans through somebody having sex
with . . .either a pig or a monkey, I forget
which.
Mary, Glasgow Scotland
HIV is believed to have been passed into
humans sometime in the 50s or 60s in Africa.
Research into Hepatitis was being conducted on
liver tissue from primates which was
contaminated with the then unknown Simian
Immunodeficiency Virus and transplanted into
a human patient.
CA , by the sea
Patient zero was an Air Canada flight attendent.
he contracted hiv while in Africa in the late
70's. According to sources he was the first
person to transmit the virus intercontentally.
Daniel, Toronto Canada
The sailor who died in Manchester in 1959 is
not now thought to have had HIV: the first
recorded case is believed to be that of a
Norwegian sailor who contracted the disease in
the early 1960s, passed it on to his wife and
daughter (the latter was born with it in 1967),
and died in 1976. There is an article by E
Hooper, in the BMJ (315) 1997, which has
information on both cases.
Jude, Aberdeen UK
"The River", by Edward Hooper, speculates that
HIV was transmitted to humans from polio
vaccinations carried out in Zaire. If I rember
correctly, the vaccins were grown in dishes of
chimp or monkey livers; these could have been
infected.
I think the evidence for this thesis was
inconclusive.
Steve, Nyon, Switzerland
I was told that HIV was contracted first by
someone in the Bible. God forgave Abel for
what he did but left him with the disease to
indicate what happens when you're unfaithful
to your spouse.
Mi-Mi Tremble-Newton, Savannah,Ga U.S.A
Sir, thank you. Sir, I think, first aids is discover
in south africa. It comes man_chimpanzee. Who
is this man? Please give the name for this man.
Please give the answer sir .
mathu, coimbatore INDIA
Humans had sex with chimpanzees in South
Africa in 1959 which spread aids around the
world.
Barun Rajput, Richhapura Jaitpur Kalan India
AIDS is a man made disease that was
developed in the bio-chemical lab on Plum
Island near New York. It was first developed in
1965 by German Nazi scientists that were
brought across after WW II. The Candida
Maltosa bacteria was infected into a cell and
this first version of AIDS was consciously
injected into a human being. The 'final' version
of AIDS was developed on Plum Island in 1979
based upon the Candida Dubliniensis fungal
bacteria and once again consciously injected
into a unknowing human being from Canada
over 1979 and 1980. This is where the real
AIDS epidemic started.
Syl, Spain
AIDS is a man made disease that was
developed in the bio-chemical lab on Plum
Island near New York. It was first developed in
1965 by German Nazi scientists that were
brought across after WW II. The Candida
Maltosa bacteria was infected into a cell and
this first version of AIDS was consciously
injected into a human being. The 'final' version
of AIDS was developed on Plum Island in 1979
based upon the Candida Dubliniensis fungal
bacteria and once again consciously injected
into a unknowing human being from Canada
over 1979 and 1980. This is where the real
AIDS epidemic started.
Adino, Benue Makurdi
HIV is believed to have been passed into
humans sometime in the 50s or 60s in Africa.
Research into Hepatitis was being conducted on
liver tissue from primates which was
contaminated with unknown Simian
Immunodeficiency Virus and transplanted into
a human patient
tMAN, Lagos Nigeria
After a thorough research from different
sources, HIV/AIDS still remains a mystery as to
who first got infected, how and when. But it is
seemed as it being virus contracted from
Simian Immunedeficiency Virus (SIV) which is
of chimps. Then, who was the first to have had
it translated form that into Human
Immunedefficiency Virus, which is believed
that the bush meat trade in Africa must have
had a chimps infected with SIV slaughtered for
human consumption. Moreover, Patient Zero, a
Canadian Air Flight Attendant contracted HIV in
the late 70's whiles in Africa. Others also
assume that it would have been a sexual
intercourse between a human and a chimp. HIV
is still a mystery yet unknown since the right
source of origin is unknown.
Bryte E. Gilberts, Accra Ghana
The first known case in North American was a
16 year old named Robert Rayford. He
presented with fever, all manner of warts and
sores, swollen testicles, and a depleted
immune system. The year was 1968, and
doctors were baffled. Rayford died only a year
after presenting to doctors. Tests were
performed on a stored tissue sample in 1987,
and showed antibodies for all 9 strains of HIV
known at that time. It was suspected that he
was a male prostitute.
Sheldon, San Ramon USA
Before 1980s people of RSA were just seeing
HIV on TV. The virus was not in RSA by that
time.
Stanley Matjila, Soshanguve South Africa
Steve Eddeson. Monkeys had sex with rats in
the sewers. Was there a case of aids in
Manchester in the 1950s?
Jason Johnson, Blackpool, UK
The black death was the start of the HIV virus
that killed many people. Through the rats'
genetics to wild rats and domesticated rats,
even the lab rats that they test on for human
resources, can all have a way of carrying the
virus and passed through to the public infecting
them with the HIVAids virus resulting in the
Aids epidemic. Inside Area 51 there are things
we don't - and never will - know of. There are
other secret locations. They could make all
sorted of illnesses and diseases which we can
pick up from the most everyday things and yet
we are led to believe HIV/Aids has been
introduced and spread between humans.
Chemical warfare is made and used to destroy
the human race without the noticeable
destruction of conventional warfare.
Tina Beddows, Blackpool, UK
That racist who says it started in South Africa is
an idiot.
Senzi Kumalo, Gauteng, South Africa
Guys why can't we develop a better chemical
that can remover that rubbish diseases.
Ramafalo Phillip Mashatole, Giyane, South
Africa
The HIV virus is spread by blood, semen, and
other types of body fluids. Animal and human
cd4 cells are incompatible with each other, the
insane statements are just that insane. It is not
a gay or straight disease. It is a blood disease,
plain and simple
James Taylor , phoenix usa
The earliest documented case in the world
comes from 1959 in Congo. The earliest
documented case in Europe was in a Norwegian
family as the father was a sailor who got
infected in Africa in the early 60s and then
infected his wife,who infected their daughter
under birth. They all died in the early 70s. The
first documented cases in USA is more difficult
since the Robert Rayford case in the 60s still is
an enigma,but some of the earliest cases
happend in New York when a teacher named
Rick Wellikoff got sick in 1979.
Lars Eriksen, Oslo, Norway
According to the CDC the highest risk sexual
activity (receptive anal) poses a 50 in every
10,000 risk of transmission. That's 0.5 %. I'm
sorry but i don't get the bushmeat theory. I
thought HIV died within seconds of it being
exposed to air. Did some hunter kill a
chimpanzee and within seconds bite into it for
a quick raw lunch and somehow he had a cut in
his mouth and got orally infected with SIV?
What a load of b****ks. Furthermore (and
bearing in mind how difficult it is to transmit) it
had to evolve from SIV to HIV in one or two
generations into other towns and then across
borders. Plus why was the first outbreak only in
3 american cities roughly at the same time and
not all over the world? HIV or whatever it is is a
man made product of monkey kidney
smoothies that idiot virus hunters played
around with in their labs and injected into the
gay population in 1979 under the label of a
hepatitis b vaccine who unsurprisingly all
started dropping like flies within 12 months.
Ben, Liverpool, UK

Great Wall of Text, please summarize.

Read 25% before losing interest. Having sex with a chimp/gorrila is dumb and impossible as they would tear off human limbs if enraged. The pēnis of other primates're also too small to penetrate human females. I'm not sure eating infected animals is plausible but my opinion does not mean universal truth.

I believe however either it was an obscure illness nobody took serious till it crossed international waters to the developed world or a biological weapon created by the whiteman but traced its way back to them. I strongly hold my belief on the latter possibility because the whiteman's mistake is always the world's problem one way or the other.