New Strain of HIV identified

[krisharry]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/03/new.hiv.virus/index.html

[gmyers]

If HIV comes from chimpanzees and gorillas how do humans get it? How did people contract it from the gorillas and chimpanzees?

[jeanea33]

If HIV comes from chimpanzees and gorillas how do humans get it? How did people contract it from the gorillas and chimpanzees?



Some guy had sex with the animal? We have got other diseses cause a man screwed a animal.

[hesnothere]

The original HIV virus did begin in the brains of monkeys in Africa which were likely EATEN. There is no history of people having sex with monkeys causing the HIV virus. The virus, when ingested, eventually transformed and became the HIV virus we know today.