Virus Hunt
The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199641147
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 222x148x26 mm
- Weight 452 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Virus Hunt is a tale of scientific endeavour. Tracing the fascinating twenty year quest to find the origin of the virus that causes AIDS, Dorothy H. Crawford takes us on a journey around the world, to recount the vital research that eventually unravelled how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.
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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.
Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely.
From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.
[E]ngaging and informative ... Armed with graphs, maps, and tables, and also with a vast reservoir of research data, Crawford meticulously evaluates and documents a series of scenarios, to piece together a detailed scientific, and also human, picture of HIV.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: a new disease
The puzzle of HIV-1
Tracing HIV to its roots
The primate connection
From rain forest to research laboratory
Timing SIV cpz's jump to humans
A vital first step for HIV-1 group M
Beginning the epic journey
HIV-1 group M meets the challenge
Past, present, and future pandemics
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