Chimpanzees Die From Primate Version of HIV

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Doreen,
The HIV that is found in humans is different enough from the chimpanzee SIV that we can be reasonably sure that the virus in the Gombe chimps was not caught from humans. Also, there is substantial research for many years that shows that HIV can be transmitted by "normal" heterosexual behavior, as well as through childbirth and breast feeding. In the case of the SIV in the Gombe chimps, we can reasonably deduce routes of transmission of the virus among the different chimps.

Jerry Learn of AL 10:43AM July 30, 2009

I have not read all Jane Goodall's writings on the chimpanzees
of Gombe. I don't know why I keep believing that homosexuality
and the insane beastiology brought about this horrible aids,
and that the animals are innocent of any abnormal sexual
behaviour. I now seem to believe that these chimpanzees you
people have obseerved and done research on have caught this
aids from some humans. I could be wrong but I do see a lot of
humans as being abnormal in many different areas, and that
non-human animals are sane. Putting aside aids for the moment,
under severe stress,I can understand that both non-human
animals and human animals can do harm to both themselves and to
others. This should never be. I don't know why most humans
can't think with common sense, compassion, empathy, reasoning
and wisdom. There is a mental block in humans brains that just
can't understand the five good words and put them to use in their daily life.

doreen rosanen of TN 2:54PM July 29, 2009