http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5012268.stm
BBC NEWS

All discoveries which relate to the history and origins of HIV
could be of value to the vital work being carried out by scientists in
developing a HIV vaccine--Yusef Azad, National Aids Trust

HIV origin 'found in wild chimps'
The origin of HIV has been found in wild chimpanzees living in
southern Cameroon, researchers report.

A virus called SIVcpz (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus from chimps) was
thought to be the source, but had only been found in a few captive
animals.

Now, an international team of scientists has identified a natural
reservoir of SIVcpz in animals living in the wild.

The findings are to be published in Science magazine.

It is thought that people hunting chimpanzees first contracted the
virus - and that cases were first seen in Kinshasa, in the Democratic
Republic of Congo - the nearest urban area - in 1930.

Scientists believe the rareness of cases - and the fact that symptoms
of Aids differ significantly between individuals - explains why it was
another 50 years before the virus was named.

This team of researchers, including experts from the universities of
Nottingham, Montpellier and Alabama, have been working for a decade to
identify the source of HIV.

While SIVcpz was only identified in captive animals, the possibility
remained that yet another species could be the natural reservoir of
both HIV and SIVcpz.

Gene tests

It had only been possible to detect SIVcpz using blood test - which
meant that only captive animals could be studied.

This study, carried out alongside experts from the Project Prevention
du Sida au Cameroun (PRESICA) in Cameroon, involved analysing
chimpanzee faeces, collected from the forest floor in remote jungle
areas.

This was useful because University of Alabama at Birmingham
researchers had been able to determine the genetic sequences of the
chimpanzee viruses - which could then be searched for in the faecal
samples.

Lab tests detected SIVcpz specific antibodies and genetic information
linked to the virus in up to 35% of chimpanzees in some groups.

All of the data were then sent to the University of Nottingham for
analysis, which revealed the extremely close genetic relationship
between some of the samples and strains of HIV.

Chimpanzees in south-east Cameroon were found to have the viruses most
similar to the form of HIV that has spread throughout the world.

The researchers say that, as well as solving the mystery about the
origin of the virus, the findings open up avenues for future research.

But SIVcpz has not been found to cause any Aids-like illnesses in
chimpanzees, so researchers are investigating why the animals do not
suffer any symptoms, when humans - who are so genetically similar -
do.

Close relation

Paul Sharp, professor of genetics at the University of Nottingham
said: "It is likely that the jump between chimps and humans occurred
in south-east Cameroon - and that virus then spread across the world.

"When you consider that HIV probably originated more than 75 years
ago, it is most unlikely that there are any viruses out there that
will prove to be more closely related to the human virus."

He said the team were currently working to understand if the genetic
differences between SIVcpz and HIV evolved as a response to the
species jump.

Keith Alcorn of Aidsmap said: "The researchers have pinned down a very
specific location where they believe the precursor of HIV came from.

"But there are vast areas of west Africa where other forms of SIVcpz
lineages exist, and the possibility remains for human infection.

Yusef Azad, policy director of the National Aids Trust said: "This
research is interesting as all discoveries which relate to the history
and origins of HIV could be of value to the vital work being carried
out by scientists in developing a HIV vaccine."

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Published: 2006/05/25 18:01:51 GMT

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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Another Carter non-contribution - that is, George Mary
is little more than a chimpanzee at a keyboard, thus
deserving the new designation:

Chimpy Carter, or just "Chimpy"

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
Kewl, another story to keep the faggots confused.
Just when you think you have a handle on hiv, the
story changes, LOL.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Usual Carter bollocks

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/hooper_h.html

In 1999 I wrote a book, The River, which proposed the hypothesis that AIDS
might be iatrogenic (caused by physicians), and that scientists might have
unwittingly started the pandemic through an experimental oral polio vaccine
(OPV) administered in central Africa in the 1950s. That book touched more
buttons than I had anticipated, for it sparked a major cover-up among those
who had been involved with making the vaccine, and among powerful interest
groups within the medical community. The attempted whitewash persuaded me
to continue my researches. I have now been exclusively researching AIDS for
20 years, and its origins for 16. And whereas I was 95% persuaded of the
merits of the vaccine theory when The River was published in 1999, I am now
(in 2006) 99.9% persuaded that this is how AIDS began.----Edward Hooper

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 18:59:57 -0000, "JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote:

Ah, John, dearest wack job, Hooper understands that HIV causes AIDS.
He just asserts that the way it got the foothold was via monkey
kidneys used in vaccines. I suppose it's possible; I've seen arguments
for an against and remain at equipoise.

Certainly, reuse of syringes is common in many developing nations so
"iatrogenic" spread of HIV is quite possible.

But for you to post this just underscores how completely conflicted
and confused your poor little mind is.

George M. Carter

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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All I know is don't believe pharma trolls like you, or take vaccines or
pharma drugs

as a mountain of evidence shows

still waiting for that first pharma aids cure

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 08:46:22 -0000, "JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote:

I don't get paid by pharma. Period. That's a lie you like to believe
so you can justify your refusal to take drugs or vaccines.

Evidence of what?

So are a lot of people.

George M. Carter

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Not me, only pharma folk http://www.whale.to/y/aids7.html