New evidence: AIDS-like disease in wild chimpanzees

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 12:42 in Biology & Nature

Chicago -- 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.

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