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Study Finds Monkey Viruses Infect People

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 13th, 1998

U.S. researchers said they found more evidence that people can be infected with monkey viruses, and said their findings had implications for research into animal-to-human organ transplants.

Walid Heneine and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tested the blood of 231 lab workers who handled monkeys and found that four had become infected with monkey viruses. "These infections, they are happening, but they are not associated with any harm in these people," Heneine said in a telephone interview.

Heneine's group previously found one laboratory worker who got infected with SIV, the monkey equivalent of HIV in humans. ...

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