The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen

The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

David Quammen

176 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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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 yield...

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