What does AIDS mean? AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. One of the most popular theories of the origin of AIDS is that the virus was restricted to a small part of Central Africa. It was thought to be in the mountains of Eastern Zaire. This virus is a type of hunta virus that was originally only found in monkeys. One theory holds that as the natural environment of these monkey species was moved into by human populations, the virus moved from the monkeys to the human population.
             There still is some controversy as to weather or not the virus actually causes the immune deficiency syndrome. Recent findings show that there are other factors involved in the actual disease. However there has to be a transfer of bodily fluids from one person to the next in order for the virus to be transmitted. The activities most responsible for the viral transmission are sexual contacts, blood transfusions, unsterilized surgery instruments, saliva, breast milk and any other bodily fluid contact.
             To date there is no cure for this illness. Many of the treatments are actually more painful than the illness. In the treatment using AZT requires that the patient take the drug every three hours night and day. This is a very difficult thing to do. Some researchers feel that the virus is now in the process of mutating into a new strain already immune to the existing drugs. The theory holds that the virus itself does not cause the death of the patient, but because it disables the messenger T4 cells the immune system does not know when to become activated against a particular bacteria. The person dying from AIDS is actually dying from simple infections that a normal person heals from.
             This illness reminds me of when Christopher Columbus came to the new world . He brought with him from Europe many forms of virus and bacteria . The natives of the new world could have developed antibodies given enough time and low levels
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