Everyone is a virgin and std-free until a certain point. So where do std’s originate from?
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Many STDs can be traced back to animals. Maybe even all of them, but I’m not 100% sure. They eventually get transmitted from animals to humans.
HIV, for example, is thought to originate with Chimps.
HIV crossed from chimps to humans in the 1920s in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was probably as a result of chimps carrying the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus closely related to HIV, being hunted and eaten by people living in the area.
A lot of STDs are caused by microorganisms such as bacteria. They’ve been around as long as human kind has existed and they evolved along side us to get better at infecting us. And they’re still working on getting better at infecting us. You have antibiotic resistant STDs now. While these microbes were evolving they were probably transmitted through ways like skin to skin contact, body fluids and just general unhygienic culture. You can get many STDs this way still you don’t have to have sex to get HIV, herpes and syphilis.
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I believe you’re asking where STDs originated. I’d say look them each up the way I looked up Chlamydia. I typed “where did Chlamydia originate” and it says;
Chlamydia pneumoniae was originally an animal pathogen that crossed the species barrier to humans and had adapted to the point where it could now be transmitted between humans. “What we think now is that Chlamydia pneumoniae originated from amphibians such as frogs,” he said.
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