PRO/AH/EDR> Simian foamy virus – Bangladesh: monkey to human transmission

HIV/AIDS — Worldwide/Unknown
A research team from the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Jahangirnagar University [Bangladesh] announced on Wednesday [4 Sep 2013?] that they found humans in Bangladesh who were infected with strains of simian foamy virus. The researchers were studying the transmission of a virus from monkeys to humans in Bangladesh, where there is close interaction between humans and monkeys. They found that some strains of simian foamy virus, a retrovirus like HIV [human