Scientists Peg The Origin Of HIV To The City Of Kinshasa, DR Congo

Scientists from Oxford University and Belgium analysed the genetic history behind the virus, which killed 1.5million people last year alone, and painstakingly traced it back to the city of Kinshasa.

Now the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgian colonial rulers had made Kinshasa a thriving trade hub with modern railways which allowed the virus to travel thousands of miles.

That combined with urban growth, migrant workers and changes to sexual habits and the sex trade, formed a 'perfect storm' which allowed the virus to spread unnoticed until it was too late to stop it.

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