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[https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/study-pushes-back-origin-of-aids-pandemic-to-1908-idUSN01511884/ by Julie Steenhuysen 1/10/08 Reuters] | [https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/study-pushes-back-origin-of-aids-pandemic-to-1908-idUSN01511884/ by Julie Steenhuysen 1/10/08 Reuters] | ||
CHICAGO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. | CHICAGO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. | ||
=====Origin of AIDS Linked to Colonial Practices in Africa===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2006/06/04/5450391/origin-of-aids-linked-to-colonial-practices-in-africa by Richard Knox 4/6/06 npr] | |||
Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the first report of AIDS. But only recently have scientists come to conclusions about where HIV came from. The current thinking is that the colonial horrors of mid-20th-century Africa allowed the virus to jump from chimpanzees to humans and become established in human populations around 1930. | |||
