The Hunter Theory

As a modern day issue, AIDs is known as a globally widespread disease with the potential to kill millions. The origin of this epidemic is described by the Hunter theory, which states that infected chimpanzees were killed and eaten, or their blood entered a human hunter’s cut or wound. The Hunter Theory explains how HIV was transferred to the human body and how multiple strands of HIV arose unlike the many theories that attempt to explain the AIDs origin. Once understood, the theory allows people to comprehend the creation of a viral disease and maybe provide future generations a plan to prevent a catastrophe.

There are many theories that attempt to explain the beginning of AIDs, but none, except for the Hunter’s Theory, explain the multiple strands of HIV. The predecessor of AIDs is SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus), and it’s because of the SIV’s exchanged between chimp and human that causes multiple HIV strands. There are four main groups of HIV strains,

Typically, the disease is structured to attack monkeys instead of humans, but, over time and as more people are exposed to SIV, the disease could mutate and adapt to a human body. What supports this mutation even more is that monkeys are genetically similar to humans. The chances of a mutation is significantly increased, because the viruses are already structured to attack a specimen that is so closely related to a human; therefore only a slight mutation could make the virus deadly to humans. There are also contributing factors to how often the disease is exposed to people. For example Bushmeat hunting, the hunting of wild animals. This reckless type of hunting leaves hunters susceptible to injuries, which increase the chances of an infected animal’s blood entering a human’s blood stream. This would allow more chances for the disease to mutate as more humans become exposed to infected animal