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What types of data convinced researchers that HIV originated when a simian immunodeficiency virus "jumped" to humans?

What types of data convinced researchers that HIV originated when a simian immunodeficiency virus "jumped" to humans?

 ancestors

as well as humans

plausible mechanisms for HIVs to be transmitted to monkeys or chimps

SIVs

mechanisms for SIVs to be transmitted to humans through butchering or contact with pets

HIVs


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 HIVs can infect primates as well as humans. Researchers estimate that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus, SIV, jumped to humans in central Africa. The mutated virus became the first human immunodeficiency virus.

mechanisms for SIVs to be transmitted to humans through butchering or contact with pets

6) SIVs are ancestral to the HIV.

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