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This article appears to be a direct copying from an article in Nature. See [ [1]]
Someone might want to take a stab at adding some of this data on origins... [2] work of Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Maybe someone can find the original scientific article to cite as well. Don't have time right now, myself... Isoxyl 21:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a contradiction in this text: in the first paragraph - "The most likely route of transmission from monkeys to humans involves the contact with the blood of hunted animals" and then later on: "The monkey SIV strains do not infect humans and HIV-1 does not infect monkeys".
The short answer: There is no evidence that if you take a strain of SIV and infect a human with it, that it will cause any pathogenecity. But we can tell by how genetically similar the virus are that SIV and HIV are related, so transmission had to occur at some point. In order to jump species, the virus must have mutated. In fact, there were many jumps across species. Many strains of HIV are more closely related to strains of SIV then HIV, indicated that multiple transmission events happened. The most likely route of transmission was through bushmeat. Read any paper out of Beatrice Hahn's lab (there are many) for specific details.
I substantially cut and merged these two paragraphs:
My problems with the above:
I'm still having disagreements with User:Clarkgf about material in Eutherian fetoembryonic defense system (eu-FEDS) hypothesis, but I would like to keep discussion of the SIV article on the appropriate talk page as much as possible, so I'm copying part of Clarkgf's latest response here:
Are you claiming that the rate of CD4+ T-cell destruction does not correlate with the development of AIDS at all? In my (limited) understanding, that is very far from being a consensus viewpoint; that doesn't mean it can't be discussed on WP, but it shouldn't just be tossed off as if it is common knowledge, and you will definitely want to confer with editors on the AIDS and HIV articles as well. "References coming" is not a very useful approach when editors raise questions like this. ←Hob 02:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
My response:
There is less difference between SIV and HIV-1 than their is between HIV-1 and HIV-2 yet SIV retains a seperate name. One must realize the virus was orginally classed as a subtype of HIV-1. Almost immediately the press reported Africans got AIDS from having sex with monkeys and African nations demanded a retraction. Partly in response this virus which was always considered a subtype of HIV-1 was renamed. This makes NO sense. If one has rabies you don't rename it. It's rabies regardless if it's in a dog, skunk or human being. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.142.96.186 ( talk • contribs)
The above poster is correct. Sorry if a virus is closer genetically than it's the same virus. So SIV is in fact at best only a subtype of HIV2 or HIV2 is part of SIV subtype.
It is illogical and it is political not science, the Wikipeida is here to teach people not to give in to political correctness. This is like saying a chimpanzee is a subtype of Humans. SIV is a type of HIV or you cannot say that HIV1 and HIV2 are the related or else you could say Eboloa is a Marburg virus, just because someone decided to call it that.
Actually, if you do not consider HIV and SIV to be to seperate viruses, then HIV would be a subtype of SIV. HIV-1 and HIV-2 are more closely related to strains of SIV then they are to each other (SIVcpz and SIV sm respecivily).
Hello, I don't see any discussion about the origin of HIV possibly coming from the use of chimps in the making of the polio vaccine. My reference is based on freedocumentaries.org, The Origin of HIV. Very interesting, sad and indicative of bad human behavior. Cinshif ( talk) 14:43, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
It would be more accurate to say that HIV-1 is an SIV as it is: a. likely a mutated strain of a chimp SIV probalby transmited to humans through bushmeat and b. it is an immunodeficiency virus that affects a species of simian (humans being that species).
The article under footnote 12 doesn't seem to say that it would take humans about 32k years to adapt to HIV (which seems extreme)- only that the virus could become nonlethal in that time period, not humans literally becoming no longer affected by it. As in, HIV itself would become nonlethal in that time period, as opposed to humans taking that long to no longer suffer it's effects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mannoro ( talk • contribs) 05:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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The macaque strains (SIVmac/stm) originate from zoonoses of a few sooty mangabey strains. However, primary SIVsmm strain isolates per se are not usually pathogenic to macaques. Instead, serial passage of infected blood seems to have been a key factor for the strain(s) to evolve into reaching its full pathogenic potential. [1] 13:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
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