New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon

[dreamseeker]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

So let's assume that it came from an ape (chimpanzee or gorilla) and was transmitted to a human, but this woman is not necessarily patient zero. Someone who was maybe poaching apes or just in their territory could be bitten, became infected, and there we have a new infection. Or some crazy person who deals in exotic animals got bitten. We're primates, apes are primates; and if diseases pass from non primates it is not far fetched that it can pass among an order such as primate with the similarities among apes and humans.

thats how i tried to think of it too, cuz any other implication is really not a good look.