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Chimpanzees do develop AIDS, study debunks previous thought

Chimpanzees do develop AIDS, study debunks previous thought

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 [...]