Hiv discovered in 1981
AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in and its cause—HIV infection—was identified in the early part of the decade.
Causes of aids
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before Pres See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th .
How did aids start
HIV is a lentivirus (literally meaning “slow virus”; a member of the retrovirus family) that slowly attacks and destroys the immune system, the body’s defense against infection, .
How did humans get aids from chimpanzees
Scientists believe that HIV originally came from a virus particular to chimpanzees in West Africa during the s, and originally transmitted to humans through the transfer of blood through .