“The discovery of a new class of monkey virus jumping into humans has reinforced claims that HIV came from bushmeat hunting.

It also suggests that viruses jump species much more often than thought – raising the risk that new viral diseases will eventually develop in humans.

The simian foamy viruses newly found in the bushmeat hunters by US and Cameroonian scientists are probably harmless, but follow up studies are planned to check whether they spread between people or cause disease.” —New Scientist