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Further evidence that HIV-1 originally came from chimpanzees bears on a variety of issues — the evolution of AIDS viruses, disease transmission from animals to humans, and chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

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Figure 1: Chimpanzee orphan, chained in a junk car lot in Cameroon.

KARL AMMANN

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Weiss, R., Wrangham, R. From Pan to pandemic. Nature 397, 385–386 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/17008

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