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Chimpanzees do develop AIDS, study debunks previous thought

Friday, July 24, 2009 10:37 By GSerrano

It was generally thought that apes acquire the infection but do not have the syndrome. A new study reveals that simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) bears the same results as when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develops into full-blown AIDS.
A study published in the latest edition of the journal nature dismantles the theory that African primates [...]

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