Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

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The Origins of HIV

Lu DY, Wu HY, Lu Y, Lu TR

If you want to eradicate deadly virus epidemics, you must clearly understand the origin of this virus. This is a
basic issue for anti-HIV vaccines and therapeutics. The HIV origin studies, though limiting, are still one of the leading frontiers in the field of HIV/AIDS researches. This editorial discusses some hypothetic topics devoting to discovery of HIV origin and illustrates different routes of HIV transmissions among human populations.