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HIV Crossed Species Barrier From Monkeys To Humans
Published in Blood Weekly, October 9th, 1995
These monkey-to-human transmissions of what would become the AIDS viruses occurred not once but at least twice in the case of HIV-1 and at least several times in the case of HIV-2.
University of Alabama, Birmingham, researcher Beatrice Hahn announced the findings in a keynote address titled "Origin and Evolution of Primate Lentiviruses" that opened the 35th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 17-20, 1995, in San Francisco, California.
"We believe both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are zoonotic...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1995-10-09)
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