Where And When Was HIV/AIDS First Discovered? And By Whom?

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Where And When Was HIV/AIDS First Discovered? And By Whom?

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Answer 1

It was first discovered in a chimpanzee, and it jump to the human race by the humans going hunting for the chimps as food and clothing.....and it was first identified in USA in 1981 when a number of gay men started to get sick from a rare type of cancer......it took several years for scientist to come up with a test to detect what the viruses was.

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Years before the onset of the AIDS epidemic, a doctor in France named Dr Luc Montagnier made important discoveries regarding body viruses. In 1983, he discovered the human immunodeficiency-virus (HIV), which was identified as the cause of AIDS, and led directly to the development of a test to detect HIV in blood samples.

Answer 3

In France by Dr Luc

Answer 4

A white man was the first diagnosed individual with hiv/aids, but 10 years later and currently to 2009 this infectious disease is considered to be a minority disease.