The chimp and the river
Subtitle: how AIDS emerged from an African forest
By: David Quammen
Contributors: Quammen, David, 1948-
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780393350845
Subjects: Etiology; AIDS (Disease); Chimpanzees; Animals as carriers of disease
Other titles: How AIDS emerged from an African forest
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 ... 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"--Back cover.
Notes: "Extracted from Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic, updated and with additional material"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.