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- AIDS is the fourth most common cause of death worldwide?
- 3.1
million people – including 610,000 children under the age of 15 – died of AIDS in the year 2002?
- in
December 2002 some 42 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS?
- the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the organism responsible for AIDS, was discovered in 1983 by Luc Montagnier
and Robert Gallo?
- in 1998 a group of scientists published a study performed on old
blood samples from African hospitals that unequivocally demonstrated the presence of HIV-1 in a blood
sample obtained in 1959 in the Congo?
- on the basis of evolutionary studies scientists
believe that HIV first appeared in the 1930s?
- HIV probably developed in humans by
transmission, especially by chimpanzees, of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus that affects
monkeys?
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