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Some monkeys in Africa had a disease (SIV) like AIDS.

It was passed to humans when they killed and ate the monkeys for food.

Or perhaps when they were cutting up the animals and blood moved to an open wound in the butcher.

The disease then mutated slightly and was then passed on from human to human through sexual intercourse and sharing of contaminated needles.

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one school of thought says african monkey's transferred the virus to humans and a homosexual flight attendant spread it through the world. Another school of thought says it was a government conspiracy by the cia.

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Best level-headed science can tell the virus was originally found in apes and monkeys, and probably transitioned to humans due to the bush meat practise (hunting apes to eat them). Then it started...

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