HIV origin has been debated by researchers since the virus was found in the 1980s. The virus attacks the body’s immune system and weakens the immune system. The first case of HIV came from “a blood sample taken in 1959 from a man living in what is now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo” (Sharp 1). HIV is similar to the virus Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), this virus weakens the immune system of apes and monkeys.“HIV-1 is closely related to a strain of SIV found in sooty mangabeys” (Sharp 2). Scientists conducted research that concluded that chimpanzees were the source of HIV-1 and this is because chimps had “hunted and eaten two smaller species of monkeys that were infected with two different strains of SIV” (Sharp 2). It is
