NATS 1670 Lecture 8: Winter Lecture 8 - HIV and AIDS
7 Feb 2017
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Viruses and allergies are main topic: viruses were talked about early in the course as well, know it all. Not one word in the movie mentions hiv. First time virus made the jump from monkeys to humans - start of the 20th. Hiv and aids: history of an infectious agent. Woody allen (cid:498)everything you want to know about sex(cid:499) (cid:523)movie(cid:524: there wasn"t enough knowledge on the virus, brazzaville, congo 1929 1,000 infected with hiv (transmission from (blood of monkey infected blood to blood) Virus made jump from monkeys to humans by hunting/eating monkeys. From here, virus moved along highways of africa: southern part of africa especially: 20-30% of people infected. Africa is affected most by hiv human to human) century) Angeles immunologist: moved to nyc to be model. 67% of those infected today are homosexual male. Dr. met the 5th patient infected with aids.
