A French woman from Cameroon has been identified as being the first human to become infected with a young strain of theHIV computer virus – one that rise in Gorilla gorilla . But it ’s still not cleared how it happened .
scientist study the type of the unnamed 62 - class - former from Cameroon say that they do n’t believe that she get along into contact with ape , nor ate their substance , and suspect that she became infect through sexual contact with another homo carry the virus . Bioinformaticist David Robertson , who ’s been follow the case , conceive that she is only one of many humans carry the striving :
It would be surprising if there are n’t some more [ human cases of this mental strain . ] We do n’t think this is a direct gorilla - to - human transmission system … Until we do more try out we ’re also guessing a little bit .
The woman has not show up any signs of a compromise immune scheme , according to scientists , although they think that the strain works in a similar way to the human strains of the virus ; gratefully , they think that this will make the virus susceptible to exist retroviral drug used to treat HIV .
Gorilla HIV make saltation to humans[New Scientist ]
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