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The Origin of AIDS
The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a frightening new disease entity which has sprung, in five years, from obscurity to a major worldwide epidemic with a ^HO estimate of 35000 cases worldwide, and extrapolahons of antibody seropositivity rates suggest there to be between 1.5 and 2.5 million carriers in the USA and that 1% of the entire population of the African continent may affected. Th...
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for those lucky enough to be in attendance, the keynote lecture delivered at the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (croi) at the end of January 1999 was nothing short of a jawdropping experience. Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham presented the first concrete evidence of the primate origin of hiv-1, the much more prevalent of the hiv types res...
متن کاملThe evolution of HIV-1 and the origin of AIDS.
The major cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We have been using evolutionary comparisons to trace (i) the origin(s) of HIV-1 and (ii) the origin(s) of AIDS. The closest relatives of HIV-1 are simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) infecting wild-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla...
متن کاملUnsolved Questions over the Origin of HIV and AIDS
T he concept of AIDS as a zoonosis stems from studies that traced HIV origins to two simian species in West and Central Africa—an idea that was reinforced by reports in highprofile journals. Although the simian origin of HIV and other human retroviruses such as human T cell leukemia virus and human foamy viruses is not in dispute, the hypothesis that simian retroviral infections are zoonoses is...
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The theory that AIDS originated from contaminated polio vaccines raises a number of challenging issues with ethical dimensions. The Journal of Medical Ethics dealt with a submission about the theory a decade ago; subsequent developments have raised further issues. Four areas of contention are addressed: whether the theory should be investigated; whether anyone should be blamed; whether defamati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/318100a0