The+disease+that+spread+through+the+1980's


 * //The disease that spread through out the 1980's//**

1. When was the origin of AIDS/HIV into the world and when?

2. Who was the man who figured out about AIDS and where did he discover it?

The first sign of HIV/AIDS in 1981 was a widespread future disaster. HIV/AIDS was first known as Kaposi's Sarcoma in young gay men in New York. The city had estimated that 400,000 New Yorkers carried the AIDS virus. Then the commissioner, Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, looked over the evidence and decreased the estimate to 200,000. This disease came to are world by a man who went to Africa and got bitten by a monkey. The monkey was caring a type of aids and it gave it to to the man. The man didn't know he was caring the disease now and had sexual intercourse with other men and gave it to them. The fatal disease exclusively was found in alot of young white gay men from New York City and Los Angeles.The disease has already killed 20 million people and one million Americans are now infected with HIV.

AIDS. Even the word brings fear to the hearts of brave people. We avoid it. But AIDS is! It is more than just four letters. It is a powerful word. AIDS powerfully affects //people//. Many of us transfer our fear of AIDS to people who may have, or who we suspect may have, AIDS. In doing this we create //the problem//: "How, as compassionate people, do we deal with our fears, without abandoning people with AIDS and without abandoning people with high-risk behaviors who may yet get AIDS" (Elder). People back then thought if you were near a person with aids you would catch it. People were deeply afraid of this disease in the 1980's because they didn't know much about it. The most common way people caught this disease was by gay men having sex. ( This is the cell when you get aids.) When aids started spreading eveywhere doctors and scientists starting figuring out ways to try not to let the aids spread any more. They said it was safer to keep the virus away if your having sexual intercourse by wearing a condom because it usually protects you from getting it ,but not all the time. You shouldn't share needles with anybody either. They started talking about it in school at a young age so kids know its nothing to mess around with and that it is deadly.