num_pages: 176
description: The real story of AIDS how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee jumped to one human and then infected more than 60 million people is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover with a new introduction by the author Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe as he unravels the mysteries of when where and under what circumstances such a consequential spillover can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data The Chimp and the River tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.
language: English
title: Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company