HIV/AIDS Emerged as Early as 1880s

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

The virus first appeared at least three decades before researchers had thought, and it may have been triggered by rapid urbanization in west-central Africa during the early 20th century.

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