Researchers find human virus in chimpanzees

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 16:56 in Biology & Nature

After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, researchers have produced powerful scientific evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans. read more

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