{"id":93,"date":"2006-03-01T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=93"},"modified":"2014-01-05T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:23:26","slug":"did-hiv-really-come-from-monkeys-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/93","title":{"rendered":"Did HIV really come from monkeys in Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIV is a human virus that is closely related to a virus found in primates (chimpanzees, monkeys etc) called SIV.<\/p>\n<p>Studies looking at how HIV has evolved have estimated that SIV passed from monkeys to humans about 80 years ago in the 1930s. SIV has been a virus in primates for thousands of years and doesn&#8217;t cause monkeys and chimps today any of the problems that HIV causes for humans<\/p>\n<p>The most likely route for the virus to first infect humans would have been from human hunters coming into contact with the blood of the monkeys that they killed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A very detailed lecture titled &#8216;Where AIDS came from&#8217; was presented by Paul Sharp at the 13th CROI conference in February, and the slides and this presentation can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retroconference.org\/\">seen online<\/a> (first webcast for Tuesday 7 February).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV is a human virus that is closely related to a virus found in primates (chimpanzees, monkeys etc) called SIV. Studies looking at how HIV has evolved have estimated that SIV passed from monkeys to humans about 80 years ago &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}