Researchers believe that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) jumped to humans who butchered or ate chimpanzee bush meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (newscientist.com)
In April two studies of simian immunodeficiency virus, a kin of HIV that infects monkeys, reported that the virus swiftly infects and decimates key immune cells in the gut within days, not years, of infection. (discovermagazine.com)
Monkey viruses have contaminated vaccines in the past, and several species, such as African green monkeys, are commonly found to be infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a relative of HIV. (newscientist.com)