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Ancient Viral Defense may Explain Susceptibility to HIV: Study

...ed TRIM5a. "We know that PtERV1 infected chimps, gorillas and old world monkeys four million years ago but left no traces of having infected humans. Our theory is that this is because humans had this innate viral defense system," said Michael Emerman, a virologist at the center. To test their theory, Emerma...

Ancient Ancestors Might Have Had a Clue to HIV

...with a nonpandemic version of HIV. Waste from wild gorillas suggests they are probably responsible for a third...the other hand, the TRIM5alpha found in chimps and gorillas appears to be very effective in denying HIV access to cells. It probably wasn't much good against Pt...

Ebola-Outbreak Kills 5000 Gorillas

...g strong evidence that Ebola killed at least 5,000 gorillas at a single site. The study also provides new hope...st showed that 93% (221 of 238) individually known gorillas at the Lossi Sanctuary in northwest Congo were killed by Ebola during outbreaks in 2002 and 2003. Th...

Monkey Virus Identical to HIV Endemic in Gorillas

A virus identical to HIV is endemic among wild gorillas in Africa and its source of transmission was proba...rst time that someone has done a survey among wild gorillas to see whether they were infected with an SIV.' She added, 'We showed they were infected and moreo...

Gorilla Dies during Heart Surgery at Washington Zoo

...o's two adult male western lowland gorillas. These gorillas are an endangered species native to the tropical r... the Memphis Zoo in 1983 and has fathered two male gorillas aged 4 and 6. He arrived at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in 1985 as part of a breeding...

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