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Etiology
Old AIDS Case Challenges Chimpanzee Link
August 23rd, 1999
Tissue taken from the frozen body of a teenage male prostitute who died 30 years ago in a St. Louis, Missouri, hospital has challenged the theory that HIV came from apes, a U.S. scientist said. Robert Garry, Tulane University, Louisiana, said his findings - presented to an international virology conference in Sydney, Australia - suggested the virus mutated for hundreds of years before becoming a pandemic. "Current thinking is that the virus came from chimps 50 to 60 years ago," Garry said. "This evidence shows strains of the virus began mutating in humans a long time before that." In 1968, a 15-year-old black male was admitted to...
Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-08-23)
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