Since the 1980s, an incurable infectious disease-“Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” (commonly known as AIDS) appeared in the population, causing a considerable degree of panic, and now it has claimed 33 million lives. After 40 years of research, virologists have almost determined that HIV is transmitted from chimpanzees to humans, but the process of transmission is still divergent. Recently, a book published by Canadian epidemiologist Jacques Pepin put forward his hypothesis that it may be the process of killing chimpanzees by Belgian hunters in the 1920s, which caused the origin and infection when they touched blood.
On June 5, 1981, the US Department of Disease Administration issued a notice stating that a “previously unknown disease” was spreading among young gay men in Los Angeles. This was the first official document of “AIDS”. AIDS has become the most frequently discussed and most easily misunderstood disease. And because pathologists didn’t know much about AIDS in the 1980s, major corrections to AIDS occurred almost every ten years. For example, in the early days of research, it was believed that “West African green monkeys” (Chlorocebus sabaeus) were the original carriers of AIDS. However, in recent years, it has been discovered that other primates in Africa have similar HIV carriers, and chimpanzee viruses seem to be closer. Therefore, the current research on HIV is more focused on chimpanzees.
The New York Post (NY Post) reported that pathologist Jacques Pepin of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, “The Origins of AIDS”, believed that AIDS may be The infection was caused by starving soldiers hunting chimpanzees for food in World War I.
Professor Pepin’s book was published in 2011, but in the second edition released this month, the professor borrowed medical archives from Africa and Europe and found that suspected AIDS cases existed in 1921 and they appeared among European soldiers. Therefore, he speculated that during World War I, European soldiers who fought in Africa faced logistical cut-offs in Moluoundou, Cameroon, and food was unsustainable. Therefore, the soldiers decided to hunt for the animals in the forest. The prey is chimpanzee.
Maybe the soldier was injured during hunting or handling the corpse, and the wound was in contact with the chimpanzee’s blood. Therefore, the AIDS retrovirus originally in the chimpanzee entered the human body and activated to weaken the human immune system. This is ” Infected Person Zero”.
After the infected person had a poor private life or shared medical equipment when seeking medical treatment, the virus began to spread. Coupled with the long incubation period of AIDS, the patient’s contact history was particularly long, and the AIDS continued to spread.
Peping added a new introduction in the newly revised book: “Some people may say that understanding the past does not seem to be important. But I think we should be concerned about the spread of this disease and the millions of people who infect it. Taken as a lesson. This tragedy was caused by a variety of man-made events, including imperialist colonial wars, urbanization, and the inattention of the public health system.
(Zhongshi News Network)
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