As the number of deaths soared, medical experts scramble to find the cause and more importantly a cure. In 1994 Institute Pasteur France discovered what they called human immune deficiency virus (HIV) and DR. R. Gallo confirmed that HIV was the cause of AIDS in 1985.…
“Every 9.5 minutes someone in the United States is infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).” According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), there are approximately 1.5 million people living with HIV, and one out of five is not aware they are infected (CDC, 2011). The first documented case of HIV was from a blood sample retrieved in 1959 from an individual residing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is no information on how this individual became infected or how it was believed to have arrived in the United States in 1969. There are a number of stories on how this life-threatening disease came about and how it made it to the United States. There is also a story of hunters eating a contaminated chimpanzee in the western part of Africa. Recent studies show HIV may have traveled from monkeys to humans as far back as the late 1800s.…
HIV is a common illness and has been for a very long time, HIV can hide for long periods of time in the cells of your body and that it attacks a key part of your immune system. Maybe one day in the future there will be a cure but sadly at the moment there is no cure, but on the bright side there is a vaccination that our scientist have discovered for us. Scientists believe HIV came from some particular kind of chimpanzee in Western Africa. Humans probably came in contact with…
Research showed that the virus was first found in a type of chimpanzee in West Africa. It has been found that humans first contracted this virus when they hunted the animal for food. The first appearance occurred in in a blood sample from a man living in the Dominican Republic of Congo.. This drastic spread was the cause of sex trade within Africa. Once in America, many patients , in the areas of New York and California, were going into the hospital and an abundance of doctors had no answers for the unexpected disease.…
The Origins of AIDS in America: AIDS first appeared in the United States in 1968 in a sixteen year old teenager named Robert Rayford, but did not start an epidemic until the early 1980s (Hunter,…
It was first generated in the Congo region of Africa in 1976. It is said that this disease came from fruit bats who then passed it on to other animals such as monkeys and other tropical animals that were killed and eaten by the people in Africa. Due to improper preparation and cooking of the animals, the people who…
AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - was first reported in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By killing or damaging cells of the body's immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS may get life-threatening diseases called opportunistic infections, which are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick. More than 790,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the United States since 1981, and as many as 900,000 Americans may be infected with HIV. This epidemic is growing more rapidly among minority populations and…
The AIDS virus has been blamed on any number of institutions, just as it has on various species and continents. While many of us believe that its eruption…
HIV/AIDS is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Although millions of people are afflicted with the disease throughout the world, this pandemic affects the continent of Africa the most by far. In Africa, the disease is increasing at an alarming rate. Even though increased effort is put in around the world to prevent AIDS, this widespread disease has increased significantly in the past decade. The toxic ailment continues to spread with a disturbing force and it has taken a long time to finally slow it down. In the late 2000’s, approximately 40 million people around the world were living with AIDS or the HIV infection, a significant rise from the 35 million diagnosed with AIDS in 2001 (Bertozzi). Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most impacted by the HIV virus; however, the disease is now growing and spreading into different continents such as Asia and countries in Eastern Europe as well as other parts of Africa.…
The first recognized case of AIDS, which occurred in the United States was reported in the early 1980s. Gay men in New York and California began to experience rare infections and cancers, which couldn’t be cured using any treatment option. During this period, the reported cases were only of men and gay men, in particular. The virus strand later became known as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), this is also the same virus that causes AIDS. There are known to be two types of HIV strands: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 strand is much more severe than the second type, causing it become more viral and spread infections globally. HIV-2 is located in West Africa and has a lesser potential for spreading than the first strand. What we are today, is that the HIV strands originated from Africa, where monkeys first transmitted the disease to humans. This theory is believable, and not to be discredited in any way. Wild chimpanzees found in forests of Southern Cameroon were killed off for a meat supply, for human consumption. In May 2003, a group of researchers published a report of samples they had analyzed, coming from sooty mangabeys. The report stated that subtype A passed the virus to humans around 1940, and subtype B passed it on in 1945. This research concluded that the virus strands originated in Guinea-Bissau where it was most likely spread by the independence war in that country…
FIRST POINT: Ebola first appeared in Central Africa in 1976. In this first outbreak, 280 of 318 people who contracted Ebola, died. That's an 88% fatality rate. Ebola researchers believe that the natural host of Ebola are fruit bats, and the virus is first transmitted to non-human primates and then to humans through bush meat trade. It is also possible that there is direct transmission from the bats to humans. The virus causes white blood cells to rupture and prevent blood from clotting. Early symptoms are flu-like, but in the final stages of the disease, patient's eyes turn red, body parts swell, and sufferers appear to be bruised all over from internal bleeding. Sufferers also bleed from all orifices. The virus is spread through transmission of bodily fluids like vomit, saliva and urine. In 1994, Richard Preston, the New Yorker contributor who has written a number of books on infectious disease, commented, “Ebola does in 10 days what it takes AIDS 10 years to accomplish.”…
HIV is a disease that has affected millions of people worldwide. From the wealthy to the poor, this virus has had devastating effects on the lives of families and individuals. According to the AIDS Institute, HIV was first discovered in a patient from West Africa. It is believed that chimpanzees carried the “simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)” which transferred to humans when they came into contact with the infected animals’ blood after the animal had been caught while hunting. SIV then developed into HIV once in the human blood stream. HIV “has existed in the United States since at least the mid- to late 1970s.” (AI, n.d.) There is no cure for the virus.…
Although Ebola has been around since 1976. It originated from the Ebola river; hence the name of the disease. Most recently there has been a major outbreak in the disease and has spread nationally which is the main cause for its emergence. Although there are no cures yet for this viral disease, by giving awareness, there will be more caution and less people getting diagnosed with Ebola. It has been theorized that the transmission of the outbreak began through fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family which are natural Ebola hosts. It began through spread throughout the human population through contact with bodily fluids such as blood of infected animals. What is even more shocking is that since viruses and diseases have a higher rate of evolving mutations, Ebola can now spread from human to human through surfaces of materials that contain the bodily fluid.…
Western Africa’s Ebola problem started when a 2-year-old boy in Guinea — around the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia. A researcher of the the virus concluded that it came from a fruit bat but scientist aren't sure. Doctors didn't have enough time to find a cure for it was already spreading throughout the region, killing 6,552 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, and Mali. For cases of Ebola in total is 17,965.…
The Ebola virus started in 1976 in West Africa. Ebola is a fatal disease that is infectious and causes the host of this disease to have severe internal bleeding and is spread through direct contact with infected body fluids by a filo virus or the Ebola virus. It is…