AIDS is an immune disease, there is no cure at present, human beings infected with HIV, the body will lose the ability to defend against other viruses. After research has confirmed that AIDS originated in gorillas on the African continent, so what did the first person infected with HIV do to gorillas?
In June 1981, a weekly magazine in the United States officially published an article on AIDS patients, which was the first record of AIDS in human history.
In 1982, AIDS was officially named, but at this time, experts speculated that the number of AIDS patients in the world had reached 100,000-300,000, and in the face of such a terrible disease, everyone was wondering, where was the source of the initial infection?
In order to learn more about AIDS, scientists began to look for the source of AIDS.
After 40 years of searching, in 2021 the Uk's Daily Mail published an article titled "Aids Origins Discovered?" " gives the answer.
The author of the article is Professor Jacques Pepin, an epidemiologist at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, which established the first medical school in Quebec and has a deep medical background.
Professor Jacques Pepin has been traveling in Africa since the early days of AIDS, devoting himself to AIDS-related research. He believes that the first patient 0 infected with AIDS from an African gorilla was infected with HIV because of eating gorillas.
At first, Professor Jacques Pepin speculated that the gorillas were local hunters, but if they were indigenous people who lived in Africa for a long time, it would be difficult to cause such a large-scale infection of HIV in the world, so the professor began to speculate on the identity of Patient 0.
After a long search, the professor believed that Patient 0, who contracted AIDS, was a soldier who shot a gorilla in the primeval forest around Cameroon in 1916.
Because HIV was initially only present in the gorilla's body and did not produce specific symptoms of infection, the soldier ate the seemingly safe and harmless gorilla and eventually caused the infection.
Cameroon was a German colony during World War I, and during the war, more than a thousand German soldiers were forced to flee to a remote town near the Congo River called Molondu, which was also the site of the original hive that had been previously speculated to have been infected.
During the three or four months that the German army was stationed here, due to the lack of supplies and supplies, many soldiers chose to go to the forest to hunt and wrap their stomachs, because famine, whether common or not, as long as it was an edible animal soldier would not let go, but the soldiers could never imagine that they had saved their lives for a while, but brought more deadly diseases to themselves and all mankind.
Nowadays, HIV has spread around the world, and there is no way to change what happens, and the only way we can do is to learn as much about HIV as possible in order to better protect ourselves.
The way in which people infected with HIV no. 0 is likely to be transmitted by blood, and blood transmission is also one of the three main ways of transmission of HIV, such as sharing needles with AIDS patients and sharing tattoo equipment with AIDS patients, etc., which may be infected with HIV.
The other two main routes of HIV transmission are body fluid transmission and mother-to-child transmission
Hive is more likely to be infected with HIV if you have unprotected sex with an infected organism, which is called fluid transmission, which occurs mostly between partners with shorter exposures.
Daily hugging, shaking hands, and eating with AIDS patients will not cause HIV infection.
The last route of transmission is mother-to-child transmission, where HIV can be present in the blood, vaginal secretions and lotions, and women can cause hive infection in their babies during embryo preparation, childbirth and feeding.
However, the probability of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in infants is not 100%, and the early treatment of HIV-infected women with HIV can reduce the probability of infection of infants to about 35%.
After being infected with AIDS, the treatment process is very long, and there is no effective cure at present.
In daily life, in order to avoid being infected with HIV, we must pay attention not to informal underground tattoo clinics and underground clinics, and avoid incomplete disinfection of utensils leading to infection. We must also adhere to the principle of using safety measures in sexual life and avoiding dangerous sexual behavior.
If dangerous behavior has occurred, we can also protect ourselves by many means.
First of all, we can buy blockers to take in large pharmacies, the sooner the blockers are taken, the better, and taking blockers within 72 hours has a great possibility of avoiding the final infection.
Then we must immediately contact the local CDC for virus testing, the personal information of the tester is confidential, and the test in the CDC is also free.
If you are unfortunate enough to be infected with HIV, do not give up on yourself, although the treatment time of AIDS is long, but with the popularization of antiviral drugs and the improvement of treatment methods, the average survival time of AIDS patients in the past was only 8-11 years, and now as long as they receive regular treatment and take drugs on time, the life expectancy of AIDS patients is almost the same as that of ordinary people.
At present, there are more than 800,000 AIDS patients in China, and the biggest problem faced by AIDS patients in life is often not disease, but discrimination, we must protect ourselves at the same time, but also to do not discriminate against AIDS patients in daily life.
In addition to AIDS, humans have contracted many deadly viruses from animals.
The Ebola virus, which has a fatality rate of 50%-90%, was infected by a 2-year-old boy in Africa from a fruit bat, who was infected with Ebola just by playing in a hollow tree trunk and living in the same space as the fruit bat, although the hollow tree was burned to ashes after the virus outbreak, but it was unable to stop this terrible virus from ravaging the african continent.
The SARS virus that broke out in Foshan City, Guangdong Province in 2002 was also infected from bats, the SARS virus was initially parasitic on the Chinese chrysanthemum bat, the Chinese chrysanthemum bat contact with the civet cat after the SARS virus to the civet fox, wild civets appeared in the vegetable market to transmit the virus to humans, eventually led to the SARS outbreak.
Although people are at the top of the food chain, we should always be in awe of nature, live in harmony with animals, do not touch or prey, not only to protect these spirits of nature, but also to protect ourselves.
Resources:
Shan Duo, Li Hui, Zhao Yuan, Liu Yufen, Liu Zhongfu 2020 National AIDS Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment Demonstration Zone Evaluation Results Analysis Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2021/3/15
Field Discipline Research says HIV originated in Africa Science Grand View Circle 2012/09/11
Wang Zengqiang, Qiu Maofeng, Jiang Yan Tracing the Origin of HIV Research Progress 2010/10/22
Editorial Board of Chinese Medical Guide Wild orangutans find the closest HIV to humans: Gorillas of Origin? Chinese Medical Guide 2007/12/10
Ma Jia, Xu Bingbing The origin of HIV was finally discovered Science and Technology in Western China 2006/08/16
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