Researchers Find Ancient Roots for SIV

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 13:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An ancestor of HIV that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, suggesting that HIV, which causes AIDS, would take hundreds of lifetimes to naturally evolve into a non-lethal virus.

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