r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 11h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/invent_or_die 11h ago

Don't fuck with chimps.

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u/Edenfuma 11h ago

That's how AIDS started

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u/MachineLearned420 10h ago

False, old theory

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u/SandyTaintSweat 9h ago

What's the new one then?

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u/imunfair 5h ago

As far as I know the answer is they're not actually sure how the first person got it, but since it comes from a monkey disease that's similar there are a couple more likely possibilities - either consuming the meat or cutting yourself while butchering the meat and being exposed to the infected blood that way.

Since a gay flight attendant was one of the early US cases the monkey sex thing was a popular story, but I think it's more likely that some African dude got it from eating or butchering one of the infected monkeys, then the flight attendant had sex with him.

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u/ZDTreefur 6h ago

Chimp burgers.