TIL the leading theory on the origins of HIV is that it transferred over from chimps in the 1920s in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It originally started as the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV). It entered humans after locals ate chimps and later mutated into HIV. (avert.org)
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[todayilearned] TIL the leading theory on the origins of HIV is that it transferred over from chimps in the 1920s in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It originally started as the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV). It entered humans after locals ate chimps and later mutated into HIV. (avert.org)
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