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“’The idea that it possibly would have jumped over during a violent encounter, butchering and eating, is actually very similar to the way modern chimp viruses have jumped into humans,’ Wertheim said. People who butchered chimpanzee carcasses, he said, were the first exposed to the pandemic strain of HIV.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/02/this-ancient-primate-may-be-responsible-for-genital-herpes/?utm_term=.4ae3268c87d4&wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1

This ancient primate may be responsible for genital herpesIf it weren't for an ancient bipedal primate that lived a few million years ago, humans probably would never have been infected with herpes simplex virus 2.