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The river : a journey to the source of HIV and AIDS / by Edward Hooper.
Author
Hooper, Edward (Edward Jonathan)
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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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RA644.A25 H663 1999
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Subject(s)
AIDS (Disease)
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Epidemiology
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AIDS (Disease)
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Etiology
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Poliomyelitis vaccine
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Contamination
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Poliomyelitis
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Vaccination
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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History
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Summary note
"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.
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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.
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ISBN
0316372617 (hc)
LCCN
98041592
OCLC
39905078
RCP
C - S
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