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Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
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Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by Dorothy H. Crawford

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UK: OUP Oxford, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition, small bump to corner. 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.
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  • Title Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
  • Author Dorothy H. Crawford
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 260
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, UK
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 29437
  • ISBN 9780199641147 / 0199641145
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: AIDS
  • Library of Congress subjects HIV (Viruses) - Africa, HIV (Viruses) - Research
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.979

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2014, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2013, Page 47
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2013, Page 131
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/10/2013, Page 0

About the author

Dorothy H. Crawford has been Assistant Principal for Public Understanding of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh since 2007. Her previous books include The Invisible Enemy, Deadly Companions, and Viruses: A Very Short Introduction. She was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, and awarded an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005.

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