Researchers have come up with a proposition that the HIV virus is rooted from Ca!
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An article published in The Lancet in 20043, also shows how retroviral transfer from primates to hunters is still occurring even today. In a sample of 1099 individuals in Cameroon , they discovered to ten (1%) were infected with SFV (Simian Foamy Virus), an illness which, like SIV, was previously thought only to infect primates. All these infections were believed to have been acquired through the butchering and consumption of monkey and ape meat. Discoveries such as this have lead to calls for an outright ban on bushmeat hunting to prevent simian viruses being passed to humans. go to http://www.avert.org/origins.htm to learn more!
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It was in Gabon, in West Africa. They found the strain of HIV that started this whole mess in Chimpanzee droppings.
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