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  • Eating bushmeat 'linked to HIV-like virus' (Simian Foamy Virus crosses the species boundary)

    10/26/2004 8:34:01 AM PDT · by dead · 20 replies · 761+ views
    Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 27, 2004
    A virus similar to the HIV strain which causes AIDS has passed from apes to humans as a result of eating "bushmeat" in central Africa, an expert has warned. It is not yet known whether Simian Foamy Virus (SFV) is harmful to humans, but there are considerable concerns because this is the same route by which HIV is understood to have entered the human population. Bushmeat - some of which is the flesh of jungle apes including protected species such as gorillas - is eaten by large numbers of people in Africa and has been found on sale in Britain....