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[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polio-vaccine-trials-are-ruled-out-as-origin-of-aids-1559242.html by Steve Connor 24/10/1992 INDEPENDENT] | [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polio-vaccine-trials-are-ruled-out-as-origin-of-aids-1559242.html by Steve Connor 24/10/1992 INDEPENDENT] | ||
The allegations, which surfaced in the Lancet and Rolling Stone magazine in March, centre on the relationship between the simian Aids virus, SIV, found to infect a high proportion of African green monkeys, and the human Aids virus, HIV. Many scientists believe HIV evolved from SIV by crossing from monkey to man. | The allegations, which surfaced in the Lancet and Rolling Stone magazine in March, centre on the relationship between the simian Aids virus, SIV, found to infect a high proportion of African green monkeys, and the human Aids virus, HIV. Many scientists believe HIV evolved from SIV by crossing from monkey to man. | ||
=====HIV's Family Tree===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/virus/tree.html by FRONTLINE] | |||
There are two forms of human AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). Related simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) are found in more than 30 species of primates in sub-Saharan Africa; each species has its own form of SIV. HIV-1 is classified into three groups, M, N and O. HIV-2 is also classified into multiple groups, but only groups A and B have been found in more than one person. | |||
