Viki, I read the article about Wangari Maathai and her comment on how we have lived with monkeys for such a long and hadn't contracted it. It's the same thing as asking why is that we live in a population where there are HIV infected people but do not contract it.
it's a blood-borne pathogen, hence no transmission unless you ingest monkey meat, get monkey blood transmission, and so on. I still believe that the origin of hiv is a jump from simian siv to humans, which later adapted itself to become hiv. Obviously it's not a concrete answer but there is much information out there to back this up. The similarity between the monkey and human viruses is uncanning, and the research done, it's hard to refute...plus i just completed a virology course and i don't think the lecturer would lie (unless he, too, was none the wiser). Well, that's just me. Sayonara...
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