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"Back in ten minutes" - A Personal Message From Ed Hooper |
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by Edward Hooper
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 |
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I have greatly enjoyed the feedback and comment which this site has engendered since it first opened three years ago.
During those three years I have received thousands of messages and enquiries, and I have replied to the great majority. Occasionally one slips through the net, and to those persons I have failed to respond to, I do apologise.
Incredibly, whenever there has been comment from my readers, it has been positive. Sometimes people have debated with me about this or that aspect of the work, but all the feedback (where there has been feedback) has been extremely kind, and has encouraged me to continue my work. By chance, the first exception to this arrived this past week, but it was a letter couched in reassuringly childish terms of personal abuse, and not one to cause too many sleepless nights! |
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Found at last: the chimps that gave Aids to the world |
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by Mark Henderson
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
Copyright 2006 Times Newspapers Limited
The Times (London)
Researchers have traced the origin of HIV -the virus that causes Aids -to chimpanzees in southern Cameroon.
A virus identified in apes living in forests south of the Sanaga River is the closestfound to the human immunodeficiency virus.
The discovery bolsters the standard theory that the Aids epidemic began after an ape version of HIV crossed into people, most likely infecting a bushmeat hunter first.
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HIV origin 'found in wild chimps' |
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by BBC
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
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The origin of HIV has been found in wild chimpanzees living in southern Cameroon, researchers report.
A virus called SIVcpz (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus from chimps) was thought to be the source, but had only been found in a few captive animals. |
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by Jon Cohen
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Thursday, 09 February 2006 |
ScienceNOW Daily News
DENVER, COLORADO--Clarifying the origin of AIDS won't prevent or cure any HIV infections, but the mystery has long gripped the field. Two groups studying wild chimpanzees in Cameroon reported progress on that front here this week at the 13th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. |
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Analysis: Tracking the source of AIDS |
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by Ed Susman
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Tuesday, 07 February 2006 |
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United Press International
The work was gross, smelly and messy, but when the scientists were finished their dirty work was rewarded with a gem of research: the origin of the virus that causes AIDS. |
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