Gorillas Harbor AIDS like virus

This was a concern in the back of my mind when bush meat was served for dinner when I was in Sierra Leone last month...

PARIS (AFP)—Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears in the British journal Nature.

French scientists made the startling discovery—which has wide implications for the illegal market in bushmeat—as they were looking for traces of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) among chimpanzees.