By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - A monkey virus similar to HIV is endemic in wild gorillas in Africa and was probably transmitted to them by chimpanzees, researchers said on Wednesday.
About 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS.
The origins of two of the three strains of the virus in humans have been traced back to monkeys in Africa infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) but the source of the third has been unknown, until now.
"It is the first time that someone has done a survey among wild gorillas to see whether they were infected with an SIV," said Martine Peeters, a virologist at the University of Montpellier in France.
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