French researchers find new HIV virus, derived from Gorillas
French researchers have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus, the first derived from gorillas, The three previous HIV variants came from chimpanzees. The new findings indicate that gorillas, in addition to chimpanzees, are likely sources of HIV, the researchers concluded in a report published in the weekly Nature Medicine journal.
The new virus, called RBF 168, was detected in a 62-year-old woman who moved to Paris, France, from the western Africa nation of Cameroon, the report says. She tested positive for HIV in 2004, and researchers led by Jean-Christophe Plantier identified the virus as being closely related to a recently discovered simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV).
The new gorilla virus “has many of the biological properties necessary for human infection,” the report says. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, calls the latest HIV variant “an oddity” but said it’s not surprising that it cropped up, because the virus has been circulating in non-human primates for centuries.
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