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HIV and AIDS first originated in Africa, it was first spread in monkeys (not sexually) and when the local ate the monkeys they would be infected and over time the virus mutated to be passed on as an STD and normal bodily fluid contacts.

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AIDS comes from the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). It is thought that the HIV was from an older virus that mutated to what we call now HIV. Most likely, HIV mutated from a virus common to monkeys. Eventually, it mutated a little so that humans could get the virus, too.

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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, originated in non-human primates in Sub-Saharan Africa and was transferred to humans during the late 19th or early 20th century.

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It is unknown. However, the first observed case was in the United States in 1981.

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