Newly Discovered Archival Data Show Coincidence of a Peak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases with the Early Epicenter of Pandemic HIV-1

• Authors: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Viktor Müller, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
• Publication Year: 2021
• Journal: Viruses, 13(9), art 1701
• Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13091701

ABSTRACT To which extent STDs facilitated HIV-1 adaptation to humans, sparking the pandemic, is still unknown. We searched colonial medical records from 1906–1958 for Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, which was the initial epicenter of pandemic HIV-1, compiling counts of treated STD cases in both Africans and Europeans. Almost all Europeans were being treated, while for Africans, […]
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