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Tracking the source of the AIDS virus

Health department - Health - Cameroon

January 2002

By showing that the chimpanzee is the natural reservoir of the virus that has caused the AIDS pandemic, and by discovering that the gorilla also carries a virus closely related to HIV-1, IRD scientists have pinned down the origin of the AIDS virus and confirmed that it has been transmitted ...

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