Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

by David Quammen and E.J. Koh

Book Overview

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 hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393350843
• ISBN13: 9780393350845
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"