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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