Where did AIDS start?

Where did AIDS start?

Although there are many stories/guesses of how and from where the disease originated, HIV is strongly believed to have been originated in Africa at around 1940.

What is the origin of the HIV virus?

AIDS is caused by HIV. HIV is believed to have originated in Africa sometime between the late 1940s and the early 1950s. The earliest known case was in a man from the Belgian Congo (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo ) in 1959 (his blood — stored since 1959 — was recently tested for HIV).

Where was HIV discovered?

In the United States, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease was first discovered in 1981 in San Francisco and New York City. Human immunodeficiency virus is a member of the retrovirus.

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