AIDS Through The Decades

AIDS is the deadliest thing to have ever hit mankind. Deadlier than the nuke bomb, more devastating than all the World Wars put together and if we dare to say as powerful as Nature's wrath this is one disease that can be easily be crowned as the greatest "man-killer" of all times. This disease has been troubling mankind for decades now and if we turn back the pages of history then we shall see that it was first witnessed in the late 50s. In the year 1959 the first blood specimen was obtained at Leopoldville located in the Belgian Congo. This was also the first known demise as was caused by this disease. It was initially thought to have affected chimpanzees. The crossover of this virus from animal to man can be assumed to have taken place through a bite or through a mutual clash.

There are several other theories that have been put forward by several scientists and one of the most well known is by Better Korber. He goes back to the origin of this deadly disease to one viral ancestor that might have emerged in a matter of forty years from 1910 to 1950. He also conducted a research on AIDS at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico and he concludes by saying that the might have come from one or more than one infected men somewhere around 1930.

There is another theory put forward by the famous Louis Pascal and this theory saw the light of the day in the year 1987. This was a very controversial yet reasonable theory that also manifested the fact that each and every early case of AIDS came from Congo, Burundi or Rwanda and these places all fell under Central Africa. This area or rather this huge region was subjected to around 300,000 men, women and children and was an alarming factor indeed.

Pascal said that this vaccine that was made from chopped up chimpanzee kidneys might just have carried the virus. Dr Albert Sabin a researcher of Polio said that such a batch was infected by a virus that still remains unknown. Ironically we can see that monkeys or apes are our ancestors and the virus affecting them likewise happens to be the predecessor of the virus affecting humans and causing AIDS. We are talking about SIV or the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus being the predecessor of HIV or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

The first few cases of AIDS were reported in USA in 1981 and were found between the US homosexual categories. Reportedly within just a couple of decades an approximated total of 50 million people might have been affected worldwide while around 22 million people have died. Around 15,000 new infections occur on a daily basis. Since the AIDS cure is still in the research level the only possible things that can be done are proper Anti-AIDS Counseling and other alternative treatment therapies. Education and proper information seem to be the only feasible weapons against this AIDS demon so far.

AIDS Through The Decades

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