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[https://www.britannica.com/science/AIDS/The-origin-of-HIV by Keith Dorwick 18/11/25 Britannica] | [https://www.britannica.com/science/AIDS/The-origin-of-HIV by Keith Dorwick 18/11/25 Britannica] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
=====The Discovery of HIV as the Cause of AIDS===== | |||
[https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp038194 by Robert C. Gallo, M.D., and Luc Montagnier, M.D. 11/12/2003 THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE] | |||
Progress in scientific research rarely follows a straight path. Generally, it entails many unexpected meanderings, with a mix of good and bad ideas, good and bad luck. The discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS did not avoid this pattern. | |||
