Working in Tanzanua, Jane Philips-Conroy and her colleagues have made the first observations of SIV (a monkey virus simular to HIV) in a wild baboon population. They have shown that the virus is transmitted largely through sexual contact rather than bites. Some of their findings appeared in:

Phillips-Conroy, J.E., C.J. Jolly, B. Petros, J.S. Allan, and R.C. Desrosiers.

1994 Longitudinal Study of Sivagm in the Wild Suggests a Predominantly Sexual Mode of Transmission. Journal of Medical Primatology 23:9-14.

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Dr. Phillips-Conroy with a pet capuchin.