Have you ever thought about where HIV originated? Well to answer your question if you have wondered that, it came from primates. Yep, that’s right, the closest resemblance to a human on earth. But allow me to tell you more.
How the whole epidemic of HIV all was started by some Africans coming in contact with bodily fluid of primates. The reason these people even came in contact with any primate bodily fluid is because of their hunting of bush meat. Bush meat is basically any type of meat you can find to kill and eat, and in most parts of Africa this is the main food the people eat. So what can happen is a hunter kills a primate, so as the animal is bleeding the blood happens to get into a cut on the hunter, and he is now infected. Nathan Wolfe, an American scientist, is on the mission of preventing/studying when hunters get infected, and how many of the animals are HIV positive. So by doing this he hopes to track the disease and inform the inhabitant’s African villages so that no more will be spread than already has been.
My opinion of all of this may be a lot different from a lot of others, but I’m not sure. How I see it is that it’s a really good thing and a good idea to do what Nathan is doing, I just don’t entirely understand it all so it’s a little irrelevant for me. But I don’t hope that by doing what he’s doing we will gain a better understanding of the HIV disease and how to prevent it and control it.
