Scientists are reporting that the origins of HIV/AIDS can be traced back over 30,000 years through those god-damn evil monkeys.
- What isn’t evil about monkeys?
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The depraved creatures have been infecting each other with the precursor to HIV, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), for at least three millennia, according to a study by Tulane University’s National Primate Research Center and the University of Arizona involving 79 monkeys from the continent of Africa.
While notoriously lethal in humans, most of the pernicious primates have developed immunity to HIV – a result of centuries of evolution, scientists say. The Tulane University research team said in a statement:
“If it took thousands of years for SIV to evolve into a primarily nonlethal state, it would likely take a very long time for HIV to naturally follow the same trajectory”
How SIV persisted for so long without risk to humans, before evolving into the disease which currently affects 33 million people worldwide remains a mystery.
Perhaps only a mystery Jessica Fletcher can solve.
Source: AOL News
