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Nature 397, 385-386 (4 February 1999) | doi:10.1038/17008

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From Pan to pandemic

Robin A. Weiss1 & Richard W. Wrangham2

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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.

  1. Robin A. Weiss is in the Windeyer Institute, University College London, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1P 6DB, UK.
    e-mail: Email: robinw@icr.ac.uk
  2. Richard W. Wrangham is in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
    e-mail: Email: wrangham@fas.harvard.edu