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Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS

Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS

Goudsmit, Jaap

Paperback

Series: Nature of AIDS

Medical ReferencePublic HealthHIV & AIDS

ISBN10: 0195124960
ISBN13: 9780195124965
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 12 1998
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
The current worldwide AIDS crisis is about 20 years old, but the disease itself is much older. In fact, AIDS is only the latest chapter in the evolution of the complex retrovirus we call HIV. Where was HIV lurking before it emerged in the early 1980s? There is some evidence that the Western strain of HIV arose in Europe as early as 1939. There is even more evidence that HIV is a direct descendant of a virus which has long infected certain African apes and monkeys, a virus called SIV--simian immunodeficiency virus. But why is a virus that is harmless in monkeys so lethal in human beings? And why, after millennia of contact between African monkeys and humans, is SIV only now entering the human population in plague proportions?

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