Talk:Simian immunodeficiency virus

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:Thanks, I'll try to fix it. AxelBoldt 23:07, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: Someone might want to take a stab at adding some of this data on origins... 
work of Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Maybe someone can find the original scientific article to cite as well.  Don't have time right now, myself... Isoxyl 21:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is another pathway to infection - vaccinations. Monkeys, chickens and more are used to incubate viruses for vaccines. Vaccination is a much more likely and certain route of transmission than 'bushmeat' leading to a rising epidemic out of the jungle. According to Maurice Hilleman, head of vaccine research at Merck, it was Merck which imported African Green Monkey (AGM, which could be expected to carry and be immune to SIVagm) were the origin. I would like to see that confirmed on a genetic level, however here is the statement from Hilleman himself:  Youtube - HIV And Cancer and Vaccine, Dr Maurice Hilleman 83.84.100.133 (talk) 12:45, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins

message: There is less difference between SIV and HIV-1 than their is between HIV-1 and HIV-2 yet SIV retains a seperate name. One must realize the virus was orginally classed as a subtype of HIV-1. Almost immediately the press reported Africans got AIDS from having sex with monkeys and African nations demanded a retraction. Partly in response this virus which was always considered a subtype of HIV-1 was renamed. This makes NO sense. If one has rabies you don't rename it. It's rabies regardless if it's in a dog, skunk or human being. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.142.96.186 (talk • contribs) 
:Did you read the SIV article? Whether it's more closely related to HIV-1 or HIV-2 depends on which strain of SIV you're talking about. The science has come a long way since the virus was first discovered. Regardless of what you think "makes sense", this is the terminology scientists are using. Wikipedia is here to summarize current knowledge, not to second-guess it. ←Hob 22:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: perhaps it's because HIV predates the polio virus: see Worobey M, Gemmel M, Teuwen DE, et al. (October 2008). "Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960". Nature 455 (7213): 661–4.96.54.53.165 (talk) 00:58, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename

message: The article under footnote 12 doesn't seem to say that it would take humans about 32k years to adapt to HIV (which seems extreme)- only that the virus could become nonlethal in that time period, not humans literally becoming no longer affected by it. As in, HIV itself would become nonlethal in that time period, as opposed to humans taking that long to no longer suffer it's effects.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mannoro (talk • contribs) 05:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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message: The macaque strains (SIVmac/stm) originate from zoonoses of a few sooty mangabey strains. However, primary SIVsmm strain isolates per se are not usually pathogenic to macaques. Instead, serial passage of infected blood seems to have been a key factor for the strain(s) to evolve into reaching its full pathogenic potential.https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/fulltext/2006/02140/Kuru_experiments_triggered_the_emergence_of.2.aspx Sky6t 13:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
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message: when you die you die end of story  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.73.92.149 (talk) 07:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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