How did AIDS start?

Aids started in africa

Answered - 267 days ago at 11:48pm on Sep 05 2011

The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s. A number of gay men in New York and California suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment.

Answered - 958 days ago at 3:48pm on Oct 14 2009

Know one knows for sure how the AIDS virus HIV started but it probably had its origins in Africa. Available data suggest that the current pandemic started in the mid- to late 1970s and by 1980 it had spread to at least five continents. ChaCha!

Answered by Amanda A. - 981 days ago at 2:10pm on Sep 21 2009

In the central African city of Leopoldville, now called Kinshasa 1959 a seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic MORE

Answered by Clarissa J. - 1005 days ago at 11:41am on Aug 28 2009

A new study of oldest known HIV strain suggests the virus jumped from animals to humans in 1940s. In 1959, in the central MORE?

Answered by Wayna M. - 1011 days ago at 10:32pm on Aug 22 2009

The first recognized cases of AIDS occurred in the US in the early 80s. A number of gay men in NY and CA suddenly More? Thanks!

Answered by Evan J. - 1078 days ago at 6:04pm on Jun 16 2009

The origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s in the U.S.

Answered by Cassandra K. - 1129 days ago at 9:07pm on Apr 26 2009

There's speculation about it being a man made virus, originating from apes in Africa, or that it is a mutation of another virus.

Answered by Louie M. - 1150 days ago at 6:46pm on Apr 05 2009