Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Pan to pandemic

Nature volume 397, pages 385–386 (1999)Cite this article

Abstract

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.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

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

KARL AMMANN

References

  1. Barré-Sinoussi, F. et al. Science 220, 868–871 (1983).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Gao, F. et al. Nature 397, 436–441 (1999).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Simon, F. et al. Nature Med. 4, 1032–1037 (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Zhu, T. et al. Nature 391, 594–597 (1998).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Gao, F. et al. Nature 358, 495–499 (1992).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Chen, Z. et al. J. Virol. 71, 3953–3960 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Koralnik, I. J. et al. J. Virol. 68, 2693–2707 (1994).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Voevodin, A. et al. Virology 238, 212–220 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  9. Mahieux, R. et al. J. Virol. 72, 10316–10322 (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  10. Heneine, W. et al. Nature Med. 4, 403–407 (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  11. Weiss, R. A. Nature 391,327–328 (1998).

  12. Sharp, P. M., Robertson, D. L. & Hahn, B. H. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 349, 41–47 (1995).

    Google Scholar 

  13. Wilkie, D. S. & Carpenter, J. Biodivers. Conserv. (in the press).

  14. Letvin, N. L. Science 280, 1875–1880 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  15. National Research Council Chimpanzees in Research: Stategies for their Ethical Care, Management, and Use (NRC, Washington, DC, 1996).

  16. Singer, P. & Cavalieri, P. (eds) The Great Ape Project (St Martin's, New York, 1994).

  17. Jolly, C. J. et al. J. Med. Primatol. 25, 78–83 (1996).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. the Windeyer Institute, University College London, 46 Cleveland Street, W1P 6DB, London, UK

    Robin A. Weiss

  2. The Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard W. Wrangham

Authors
  1. Robin A. Weiss
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Richard W. Wrangham
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

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

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/17008

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing