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HIV/AIDS; retrovirus HIV/AIDS; MMWR, June 5, 1981
Learn about the early outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.
Learn about the pathogen HIV causing the disease AIDS, its treatments and effects
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Details of the origin of HIV remain unclear. However, a lentivirus that is genetically similar to HIV has been found in chimpanzees and gorillas in western equatorial Africa. That virus is known as simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), and it was once widely thought to be harmless in chimpanzees. However, in 2009 a team of researchers investigating chimpanzee populations in Africa found that SIV in fact causes AIDS-like illness in the animals. SIV-infected chimpanzees have a death rate that is 10 to 16 times higher than their uninfected counterparts. The practice of hunting, butchering, and eating the meat of chimpanzees may ...(100 of 7006 words)

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