Editing Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS (section)

===Origin of AIDS through human–monkey sexual intercourse===
{{See also|HIV/AIDS#Origins}}
While HIV is most likely a mutated form of [[simian immunodeficiency virus]] (SIV), a disease present only in chimpanzees and [[Old World monkey|African monkeys]], highly plausible explanations for the transfer of the disease between species ([[zoonosis]]) exist not involving [[bestiality|sexual intercourse]].<ref name=Locatelli2012>{{cite journal|last=Locatelli|first=S|author2=Peeters, M|title=Cross-species transmission of simian retroviruses: how and why they could lead to the emergence of new diseases in the human population|journal=AIDS  |date=Mar 27, 2012|volume=26|issue=6|pages=659–73|pmid=22441170|doi=10.1097/QAD.0b013e328350fb68|s2cid=38760788|doi-access=free}}</ref>  In particular, the African chimpanzees and monkeys which carry SIV are often [[hunting|hunted]] for food, and epidemiologists theorize that the disease may have appeared in humans after hunters came into blood-contact with monkeys infected with SIV that they had killed.<ref name=Sharp2011>{{cite journal|last=Sharp|first=PM|author2=Hahn, BH|title=Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic|journal=Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine|date=September 2011|volume=1|issue=1|pages=a006841|pmid=22229120|doi=10.1101/cshperspect.a006841|pmc=3234451}}</ref> The first known instance of HIV in a human was found in a person who died in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] in 1959,<ref name="Zhu, 1998">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1038/35400 | last1 = Zhu | first1 = T. | last2 = Korber | first2 = B.T. | last3 = Nahmias | first3 = A.J. | last4 = Hooper | first4 = E. | last5 = Sharp | first5 = P.M. | last6 = Ho | first6 = D.D. | year = 1998 | title = An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic | journal = Nature | volume = 391 | issue = 6667| pages = 594–97 | pmid = 9468138 |bibcode = 1998Natur.391..594Z | s2cid = 4416837 | doi-access = free }}</ref> and a recent study dates the last common ancestor of HIV and SIV to between 1884 and 1914 by using a [[molecular clock]] approach.<ref name="nature07390">{{cite journal |last1=Worobey |first1=Michael |date=2 October 2008 |title=Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=455 |issue=7293 |pages=661–64 |doi=10.1038/nature07390  |pmid=18833279 |first2=Marlea |last2=Gemmel |first3=3=Dirk E. |last3=Teuwen |display-authors=2 |last4=Haselkorn |first4=Tamara |last5=Kunstman |first5=Kevin |last6=Bunce |first6=Michael |last7=Muyembe |first7=Jean-Jacques |last8=Kabongo |first8=Jean-Marie M. |last9=Kalengayi |first9=Raphaël M.|last10=Van Marck |first10=Eric |last11=Gilbert |first11=M. Thomas P. |last12=Wolinsky |first12=Steven M. |bibcode = 2008Natur.455..661W |pmc=3682493|url=http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/5121/ }}</ref>

[[Tennessee Senate|Tennessee State Senator]] [[Stacey Campfield]] was the subject of controversy in 2012 after stating that AIDS was the result of a human having sexual intercourse with a monkey.<ref name=huff0126>{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/stacey-campfield-tennessee-senator-dont-say-gay-bill_n_1233697.html |title=Stacey Campfield, Tennessee Senator Behind 'Don't Say Gay' Bill, On Bullying, AIDS And Homosexual 'Glorification' |work=The Huffington Post |date=2012-01-26 |access-date=2012-01-30|last1=Signorile |first1=Michelangelo }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Knoxville Republican says AIDS came from man having sex with a monkey then with other men|url=http://www.politifact.com/tennessee/statements/2012/feb/03/stacey-campfield/knoxville-republican-says-aids-came-man-having-sex/|access-date=16 April 2018|work=Politifact|language=en}}</ref>