Viral Sex
The Nature of AIDS
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 December 1998
- ISBN 9780195124965
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 216x139x15 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 halftones, 9 line figures 0
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Short description:
In Viral Sex, leading AIDS researcher Jaap Goudsmit illuminates the origins and nature of the world's most lethal disease. He provides an eyewitness account of science's effort to understand and control the spread of this deadly virus, in a fascinating journey that reaches from the deepest recesses of the African rainforest, to ancient Egypt and the mummified remains of Barbary apes, to pioneering research labs in the USA and Europe.
Provocative, vividly written, and impeccably researched, Viral Sex instills in readers a new sense of the urgent need to contain HIV and other similarly lethal viruses.
Long description:
In Viral Sex, leading AIDS researcher Jaap Goudsmit illuminates the origins and nature of the world's most lethal epidemic. This fascinating epidemiological whodunit, or...`howdunit' (The Lancet), takes us on a journey from the African rainforest, to ancient Egypt, to pioneering research labs in the U.S. and Europe.
The concept of `viral sex', Goudsmit explains, is central to understanding the AIDS crisis. HIV not only produces offspring that are almost exact copies of the parents, but also reproduces sexually, creating a recombinant population of variants. This `viral sex' gives HIV an edge in adapting to new hosts, enabling it to survive the leap from ape to man. Goudsmit argues that the man-made phenomenon of deforestation and human encroachment on the African monkey habitat provided the opportunity for the SIV virus to jump to its new host, human beings, who then brought HIV out of the Cameroon rainforest at the turn of the century.
Provocative, vividly written, and impeccably researched, Viral Sex instills readers with a new sense of the urgent need to contain HIV and other similarly lethal viruses before they spread beyond the grasp of even the most sophisticated science.
Table of Contents:
The most disarming virus
The rise of the western AIDS epidemic
HIV baby booms: epidemics come and go
The rainforest roots of HIV
HIV-0 and HIV-1: the chimpanzee connection
HIV-2: the sooty mangabey connection
Searching for SIV in monkey mummies
Beyond HIV and SIV: the cat connection
The mystery suitor: HIV's next move
Viral sex and AIDS: response to instability
Retrovirus survival: the human threat
Human survival: vaccines to disarm HIV
Epilogue
Glossary
Index
Bibliography
