Virus Hunt

Name: Virus Hunt
ISBN: 9780199641147

The Search for the Origin of HIV/AIDs

Dorothy H. Crawford

Oxford University Press · Print & ebook · July 11, 2013

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

HIV & AIDS Virology Epidemiology

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Genres: HIV & AIDS, Virology, Epidemiology
Published: Oxford University Press, July 11, 2013

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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon.

Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.

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Virology	66%
HIV & AIDS	46%
Epidemiology	33%

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Medical History

Authors: Dorothy H. Crawford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: July 11, 2013
Format: Print & ebook
Reading lane: Medical History