{"id":3162,"date":"2014-10-03T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:52:26","slug":"how-railways-helped-aids-spread-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-railways-helped-aids-spread-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How railways helped AIDS spread in Africa<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The HIV pandemic with us today may have begun its global spread from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) around 1920, according to a new study.\u00a0A team of researchers have reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV virus by analyzing gene sequences found in a major HIV database.<\/p>\n<p>The authors explain that, between the 1920s and 1950s, a &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; of factors, including urban growth, strong railway links during Belgian colonial rule, and the rise of sex trade, combined to see HIV emerge from Kinshasa and spread across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/346\/6205\/56.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Nuno R. Faria,\u00a0University of Oxford, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n<h4>Jacques P\u00e9pin, Sherbrooke University, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HIV pandemic with us today may have begun its global spread from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) around 1920, according to a new study.\u00a0A team of researchers have reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV virus by analyzing gene sequences found in a major HIV database. The authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2134,917,2016,53,476,849],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-disease","tag-evolution","tag-hiv","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-P0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}