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The Chimp and the River (final) (1)
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The Chimp and the River (final)Gaetan Dugas - ANS-Who was patient zero?
around 2500 - ANS-How many people were traced back to patient zero?
it was suggested that he intentionally transmitted the disease - ANS-What happened once he
was diagnosed?
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) - ANS-What does HIV lead to?
attacks the body's immune system; - ANS-What does HIV do?
help the immune system fight off infections; destroys the cells that the body can't fight off -
ANS-What do T cells do? (CD4 cells)
Bantu man in 1959; lived in Kuchasa and in 1908; human tissue preserved in paraffin wax -
ANS-Who is really believed to be the first human to have contracted HIV? And what year did
he/she live?
scientists revealed where human HIV originated by looking at genetic diversity between different
HIV samples - ANS-How did researchers determine who the real patient zero was?
Southeastern Cameroon 100 square miles near Sangha river - ANS-Where did HIV
geographically originate?
less than 1 million years ago a chimp kills a monkey infected with SIV which became HIV -
ANS-How did chimp 0 get the simian version of HIV
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