JClarke
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"--Mabye not but thats what they did, and that is what it is traced to, sex with the green monkeys, besides, I am not sure about the monkeys but, the HIV virus isn't present in saliva. " --While you are right about HIV not being present in saliva, the rest has little scientific backing. First of all, green monkeys are from Africa not South America. Next, the green monkey theory is no longer supported as the origin of HIV. It was proposed by Robert Gallo in the early 80's and later discredited. Most scientists studying HIV believe it came from SIV from a sooty mangabey or chimpanze or both. In Western Africa chimps were commonly kept for food and as pets. The process of butchering monkeys for food provides an easy way for HIV to infect humans. Much more likely then monkey sex, which in my opinion is most likely fictional or a exageration of certain practices based on cultural bias.
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JClarke
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"Thanks for the new information, so how exactly was the 'Green monkey theory' discredited? At least we know it would have come from some sort of monkey or chimp and in the family." --Samples of SIV's have been taken from many different groups of monkey's and the samples from sooty mangabey are close to being geneticly identical to HIV-2. For HIV-1, the most similar samples are from chimpanzes though the match is not a close as in HIV-2. More samples are being collected by various groups which could be closer but I think these are the two best possiblities.
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