First AIDS victim 'was starving soldier forced to hunt chimps for food' scientist claims

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A starving World War One solider forced to hunt chimps for food was the first AIDS patient, a scientist claims. Professor Jacques Pepin, an epidemiologist at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, has been working to discover the origins of the deadly viral disease for decades.

Back in 2011 he concluded that a hunter in Cameroon was the first person to be infected by HIV, the condition which leads to AIDS, at the start of the 20th century.

Previous studies had confirmed that simian immunodeficiency virus, which is found in chimps, moved from the animals to humans in South-East Cameroon as the 1900s began.

Dr Pepin has now revised his theory to argue patient zero was in fact a starving World War One soldier forced to hunt chimps for food when