A 62-year-old woman living in Paris tested positive for a new strain of HIV. Before this, it was thought that all strains of HIV-1 were passed to humans by chimpanzees; however, this new strain is thought to have derived from gorillas.

The woman, originally from the capital of Cameroon, Yaounde, tested positive for HIV in 2004 and has not yet shown any signs of AIDS. How she contracted this new strain of HIV is still unknown. The woman claims to have had no encounters with live gorillas or bushmeat.

This new discovery presents many new questions, and also other possibilities that have been investigated before. How many people are infected with this new strain is hard to tell, but researchers will definitely be looking into possibly even more strains of HIV.

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