International Scientific Team 'Confirms' Chimps Origin Of HIV
by Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
May 25, 2006 - 5:00 pm ET
(Washington) Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.
Solving the mystery of HIV's ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh feces of wild apes — more than 1,300 samples in all.
Before that, it took seven years of research just to develop the testing methods to genetically trace the primate version of the virus in living wild chimps without hurting the endangered species.
Until now, "no one was able to look. No one had the tools," said Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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okay but who cares where it started
should the concentration of scientific dollars be on a cure?
article at http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/05/052506hiv.htm
(Washington) Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.
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