AIDS IN 1908?

It is being claimed that the  first  human to die from aids or h.i.v virus  got if from a chimp  killed  for meat  in 1908.The man  from South East Cameroon was inflected when blood got  into open wound.This was found by  d .n. av by science writer DAVID QUAMMEN ..IN HIS BOOK THE CHIMP AND THE RIVER  and believes it lurked undiagnosed  in Africans untill Hati began spreading in 1969