HIV AIDS: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 117: | Line 117: | ||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01480.x by Nicoli Nattrass 25/4/12 WILEY] | [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01480.x by Nicoli Nattrass 25/4/12 WILEY] | ||
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) originated from cross-species transmission of the simian immunodeficiency virus from primates to humans. Yet a significant minority of people in the United States (US) and South Africa believe that HIV was deliberately created by scientists as a bioweapon. Scholars in the humanities emphasise the historical context, socially situated character and psycho-social dimensions of such aetiological narratives. | The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) originated from cross-species transmission of the simian immunodeficiency virus from primates to humans. Yet a significant minority of people in the United States (US) and South Africa believe that HIV was deliberately created by scientists as a bioweapon. Scholars in the humanities emphasise the historical context, socially situated character and psycho-social dimensions of such aetiological narratives. | ||
=====HIV-1 origins and spread===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3133 by Orli Bahcall 29/10/14 nature genetics] | |||
Although 13 cases of cross-species transmission of a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) into humans have been reported, only HIV-1 group M has led to a pandemic. Oliver Pybus, Philippe Lemey and colleagues now report a phylogenomic analysis of HIV-1 sequences isolated from central Africa, providing insights into what distinguished the origins and spread of HIV-1 group M (Science 346, 56–61, 2014). | |||
