The Chimp and the River
Author | : David Quammen |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781473523951 |
ISBN-13 | : 1473523958 |
Rating | : 4/5 (958 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Chimp and the River written by David Quammen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human and 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 Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp population s in the jungles off the southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where and how such a consequential 'spillover' can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data, The Chimp and the River tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.