Can HIV-AIDS infect primates as well as humans?

HIV1 can infect chimpanzees as well as humans, but not most other kinds of primates such as monkeys.

HIV1 infections tend to be milder in chimps than in humans - they don't usually develop the severe immune deficiency that humans do.

I may be wrong but I do believe HIV and Aids did originate from primates.

hes right soemhow it spreaded to humans...... how i dont know

its believed that aids originated from primates in the first place, there are many similiar diseases to HIV in many different animals, with similar outcome and viral structure.

they say its form apts

There is a PBS special on AIDS and it is suggested that HIV might have started with primates. There is a 95% similarity between HUmans and primates.

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