Post by Harj Cohen on Oct 1, 2008 22:27:22 GMT
The study, published in the journal Nature, suggests the virus may have crossed from apes to humans between 1884 and 1924.
They believe newly-built cities may have allowed the virus to thrive.
Aids, the illness caused by HIV, was first reported by doctors in 1981, but the virus had been around for many decades before that.
HIV is not a single virus - there are a number of different strains and subtypes of strains, some sharing the same "founder event" in history, in which a single human was infected.
A single human had coitus with an ape, his idenity still remains unknown.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7646255.stm
Scientists believe that these "founder events" may have involved eating monkeys infected with a similar virus.
^^^^^Thats so damn PC. Its extremely unlikely. They just don't want to admit the immoral nature(copulation) of the spread of HIV.
They believe newly-built cities may have allowed the virus to thrive.
Aids, the illness caused by HIV, was first reported by doctors in 1981, but the virus had been around for many decades before that.
HIV is not a single virus - there are a number of different strains and subtypes of strains, some sharing the same "founder event" in history, in which a single human was infected.
A single human had coitus with an ape, his idenity still remains unknown.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7646255.stm
Scientists believe that these "founder events" may have involved eating monkeys infected with a similar virus.
^^^^^Thats so damn PC. Its extremely unlikely. They just don't want to admit the immoral nature(copulation) of the spread of HIV.
