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40 years of HIV

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Evolution of the Chimpanzee Virus

Annie Howard at the National AIDS Trust explains how HIV came to be in humans. She says it was probably transmitted from a chimpanzee to a human 100 years ago. The virus then spread across Africa and into other parts of the world, she adds. Annie: "It doesn't surprise me that this virus could go under the radar for such a long period of time"

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