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Author:

Quammen, David, 1948- author.

Title:

The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African forest / David Quammen.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

174 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--Etiology.
Animals as carriers of disease.

Other Authors:

Based on (work): Quammen, David, 1948- Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic.

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.

Summary:

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

0393350843 (pbk.)
9780393350845

LCCN:

2014042399

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

SHPC094 -- Denver Public Library (Denver)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)