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Hiv Aids Conspiracy Theory

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a disease transmitted through blood and bodily fluids, and is caused by HIV or human immunodeficiency virus ("History of AIDS Up to 1986."). Did you know that many people considered AIDS a gay disease because it was thought that it only affected homosexual males, mainly those with several sexual partners or those who used drugs ("History of AIDS Up to 1986.")? Before AIDS had a name it was called a number of different things (“HIV and AIDS in the USA”). AIDS is important to world history because it helped people become aware of a disease that could affect them.
The first reported cases of AIDS in the U.S were in the early 1980's (Holland). A number of gay men in New York and California began …show more content…

They were important because many of the cases that were reported were gay men and without that we might not have discovered AIDS until later and we wouldn’t know as much about it as we do now. They also helped with coming up with the symptoms and how it was transmitted. There are many conspiracy theories about where AIDS originated. Some people believe that it was created by the government to kill homosexuals and African Americans (Alford). Others believe that it’s god’s punishment for homosexuals and those that supported homosexuality (Lapidos). Some people believe that it was created in a laboratory as an accident. (Lapidos). Some even goes as far as to think it’s not even a virus (Lapidos).
It is proven that the source of the HIV virus was from a type of chimpanzees located in West Africa ("Where Did HIV Come From?"). The chimpanzees carried a virus called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) which is similar to HIV ("Where Did HIV Come From?"). It is thought that when it was transferred the humans it mutated into HIV ("Where Did HIV Come From?"). The disease was transferred to humans by hunting the chimpanzees and eating the meat off of them ("Where Did HIV Come

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