Re:Aids: Origin of pandemic 'was 1920s Kinshasa'
by ajarmst on Friday October 03, 2014 @03:31PM
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This is hardly news. The origin locale and timeframe (acquired zoonotically from Chimpanzees north of Kinshasa, probably around 1908, travelling by river to Kinshasa and Brazzaville, where social conditions permitted amplification and adaptation to human hosts) have been strongly supported by evidence for about a decade. David Quammen discusses it in detail in his book "Spillover". While this study adds more evidence supporting the theory, that area and timeframe was pretty much accepted as fact in the research community for some time.
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Re:Aids: Origin of pandemic 'was 1920s Kinshasa'
by k-mcgrady on Friday October 03, 2014 @04:06PM
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It's news for those of us not in the AIDS research community.
Re:Aids: Origin of pandemic 'was 1920s Kinshasa'
by jacquesm on Friday October 03, 2014 @04:24PM
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That book is very widely spread outside of the AIDS research community, and is only peripherally about AIDS/HIV. Even lay-people are reading it in droves. Definitely a good read if you have the time.