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Aids Epidemic

            
             This terrifying disease has shattered lives all over the planet and will continue to fester within our population. HIV/AIDS is one of the most untamed diseases in our country and will continue to be one of the most devastating epidemics in the United State's history.
             Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in the United States when doctors in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco began to notice a recurrent diagnosis of Pneumoncystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and Karposi's sarcoma (KS) in young male homosexuals (Shilts pg. 60). This was suspicious at the time because both KS and PCP were not often found in young adults. (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu) What also added a bit of peculiarity was that KS was a type of benign skin cancer that was usually only found in older Jewish and Italian men (Shilts pg. 37), certainly a far cry from the young American men in their 20's . No one could fathom why these two diseases were becoming so heavily diagnosed and prevalent in young gay men. .
             There are many ideas of how AIDS actually got to America. Most believe that it originated in monkeys. The disease in monkeys however was called SIV (simian immune virus) opposed to HIV (human immune virus.) After much debate HIV is likely to have originated in West African chimpanzees, more specifically, Pan troglodytes (http://www.apnet.com). It is common belief that it was transferred to humans when monkeys were taken in as pets. When monkeys were taken in as pets their were often instances where bites would occur thus having blood transferred from the monkey to the human. Another way it has been believed to be spread was keeping monkey's as pets then they were often kept until they were hearty enough to kill for food (http://www.apnet.com). Monkey meat, or more commonly known in Africa as "bush meat" was a large market (http://history.acused.edu). Slaughtering the monkey was often a somewhat gruesome process that took place in less than sanitary conditions where gloves weren't worn or proper precautions weren't taken and even eating it could've caused the SIV to transfer into the humans blood stream therefore giving them the virus.


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