For the first time, scientists have shown that chimpanzees in the wild become sick, and die from the simian version of AIDS.
科学家首次证明,野生黑猩猩会因猿类艾滋病而患病甚至死亡。
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Routine genetic sequencing of the virus showed it looked like no other sample of AIDS virus and it was eventually compared to a gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus, itself only discovered in 2006.
The primate version of the virus that causes AIDS is called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), but most apes and monkeys that are infected with it show no symptoms of illness.