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All those injections, according to Pepin, might account for boosting the incidence of HIV infection beyond a critical threshold. Once the reusable needles and syringes put the virus into enough people—say, several hundred—it wouldn’t come to a dead end, it wouldn’t burn out, and sexual transmission could do the rest.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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