Study confirms: Forms of HIV can cross from chimps to humans

Friday, July 22, 2016 - 07:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

No one knows exactly how it happened. It may have entered through a cut or bite wound, the blood of a chimpanzee seeping into an exposed fingertip or forearm or foot. But in the early 1900s, probably near a West African rainforest, it’s thought that a hunter or vendor of bush meat – wild game […]

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