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Where did HIV, the virus that causes AIDS originate?
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was first noticed in the early 1980s and it has been a puzzle where it actually came from. There is still a lot of debate about this.
A recent research article reveals that gorillas living in the wild in Central Africa are infected with an HIV-1 related virus. This result was completely unexpected and has got people thinking afresh about the origins of HIV.
This new simian immunodeficiency virus, called SIVgor, is genetically similar to an HIV-1 variant called group O. Although rarely found in humans, this variant has been the source of cases of AIDS. This is prompting researchers to ask more about how immunodeficiency viruses pass between different hosts. Some people believe that an ape form of the virus was transferred to humans just before cases of AIDS first started to come to light in the 1980s. During this transfer, the virus may have mutated and become very infectious between human beings, leading to the AIDS epidemic.
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