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Why 30 years of AIDS is only the tip of an iceberg [1]

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June marks 30 years since the first report of AIDS - a syndrome that has killed an estimated 25 million people worldwide. Yet this year's anniversary is somewhat arbitrary: the virus responsible for AIDS has probably been circulating within human populations for 100 years. Why did it take so long to detect it?

Publication Date: 
16/04/2011
Hayley Crawford [2]
New Scientist [3]
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2808
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Tags:
AIDS [4], Medical Research [5], United States Of America (US) [6], Africa [7], Diagnostic Methods [8], Global [9], Health [10]

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