New evidence: AIDS-like disease in wild chimpanzees
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 12:49
in Biology & Nature
An international consortium has found that wild chimpanzees naturally infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) - long thought to be harmless to the apes - can contract an AIDS-like syndrome and die as a result. The findings are published in the July 23 edition of the journal Nature.