The river : a journey to the source of HIV and AIDS / by Edward Hooper.

Author
Hooper, Edward (Edward Jonathan) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Boston, MA : Little, Brown and Co., [1999], ©1999.
Description
xxxiii, 1070 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    • "Based on over a decade of research, involving more than 600 interviews and analysis of more than 4,000 scientific texts, The River examines the myriad theories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic - and reaches a stunning and startling conclusion." "Since the early nineties, serious HIV researchers have been aware that the most common variant of HIV - human immunodeficiency virus - is the direct descendant of an SIV - simian immunodeficiency virus - carried by African chimpanzees.".
    • "Many doctors and scientists think the transfer was "natural," the result of human/chimp encounters - either from the keeping of chimps as pets, or from hunting and skinning chimps for food.".
    • "Others, including Edward Hooper, believe it more likely that the transfer was the result of American and European medical interventions in Africa during the 1950s - and specifically the administration of more than a million doses of an experimental oral polio vaccine, some batches of which may have been manufactured from chimp kidneys. The maps of vaccinations and early AIDS cases are extraordinarily similar."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword / Bill Hamilton
    • Prologue: A Note on Sources - And Exploring Rivers
    • Introduction: John Snow and the Water Pump
    • I. The River in Cross Section: Frozen Moments of Flow
    • II. From Trickle to Flood: The Early Spread of AIDS
    • III. A New Hypothesis of Source
    • IV. European Feeders
    • V. The Passage Through the Pools
    • VI. Whirlpools and Sinkholes
    • VII. Charting the Course
    • VIII. How a River is Born
    • App. A. Arguments For and Against the OPV/AIDS Hypothesis
    • App. B. Experiments and Investigations That Could Be Conducted to Shed Further Light on the OPV/AIDS Hypothesis.
    ISBN
    0316372617 (hc)
    LCCN
    98041592
    OCLC
    39905078
    RCP
    C - S
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