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Contributor [1]
Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
149 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The practice of hunting and eating bushmeat in Central Africa is infecting people with a new virus. While it has not caused illness, it has spread - and scientists are watching carefully. A primate virus is thought to have triggered today's HIV pandemic.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/21001 [5]

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