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The Origins of AIDS (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Origins of AIDS (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins
continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by
his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in
Zaire, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century
events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS
and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and
destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was
first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military
campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial
medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases
combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from
its origins in Leopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean
and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on
HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces
another pandemic.
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