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The Origins of AIDS - Free Medical Books

Description: It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in 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 urbanization, prostitution, and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential new perspec...
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Author(s): Jacques Pepin
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: 2011-09-01
Book Pages: 311
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 1139501410
Subjects: Medical / History • Medical / Infectious Diseases • Medical / General
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