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HIV

Date Submitted: 08/18/2004 22:04:58
Category: / History
Length: 1 pages (344 words)
In West- Central Africa people probably been dying of AIDS for Thousands of years. And they contracted HIV-1 virus by hunting chimpanzees for meat. Fend Goo a scientists from The University Of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) theory is that for centuries, HIV infections were limited to Gabon, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea which are parts of Africa, because they had little contact with the outside world until after WW2. After 1945, the economy changed which brought more …
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…on there theory of cross species transmission by putting together chimpanzee conservation groups operating near the epicenter of HIV in Africa. The chimp experts described a trade in "bush meat" for human consumption. If the meat is infected the virus infect humans when they handle the infected carcasses with cuts or other open wounds on their hands. This new research into the origin of HIV could lead to eventual control the virus know as AIDS.
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