virus" (Langone 8). " AIDS is... also accepted as a syndrome, a collection of specific, life-

threatening... infections and symptoms that is the result of an underlying immune

deficiency - a deficiency not caused by any known conditions and illnesses other than

infection with the AIDS virus" (8).

There is one main explanation of how AIDS started and came to America.

Scientists believe that when the Portuguese took Africans to Japan, the Africans got AIDS

from the monkeys (63). The monkeys would be in the trash, and when the people,

including the Africans, would chase the monkeys away, the monkeys would fight back

biting and scratching (63). That is how the Africans got AIDS, but scientists do not know

how AIDS got to Africa (63). Scientists do know how AIDS got to America. Haitian

laborers went to Africa and contracted the disease ( Hay 13-14). Then the laborers

returned to Haiti, and met homosexual men from the United States (13-14). The

homosexual men contracted AIDS from the Haitians and returned to the United States

is a system of using natural substances to alleviate symptoms (239-40).

There are also many medications to help against AIDS and infections associated

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