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Microbiologist traces possible origin of AIDS epidemic to WWI soldier – NEWS.com.au
Microbiologist traces possible origin of AIDS epidemic to WWI soldier
AIDS likely made the leap from chimpanzees to humans because of a starving World War I soldier who was forced to hunt the animals for food, according to a new book.The unknown “Patient Zero” was part of an invasion force of 1600 Belgian and French troops who, along with 4000 African aides, had travelled from Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo to a remote outpost in Cameroon, says Canadian microbiologist Jacques Pepin, who once worked as a bush doctor in central Africa in the 1980s.
Pepin, a professor…
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