Title Information
RA643.86.A35P465 2011
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Book
TITLE:
The origins of AIDS / Jacques Pepin.
AUTHOR:
Pepin, Jacques, 1958-
PUBLISHED:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
DESCRIPTION:
xiv, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.
NOTES:
"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission of the disease before it was first officially identified in 1981.
SUBJECT:
HIV infections --Africa.
SUBJECT:
HIV infections--Etiology.
SUBJECT:
AIDS (Disease)--Africa.
SUBJECT:
Emerging infectious diseases --Africa.
SUBJECT:
HIV Infections--etiology --Africa.
SUBJECT:
HIV Infections--history --Africa.
SUBJECT:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history --Africa.
SUBJECT:
Communicable Diseases, Emerging--history--Africa.
SUBJECT:
Disease Vectors--Africa.
SUBJECT:
HIV-1 --pathogenicity --Africa.
SUBJECT:
History, 20th Century --Africa.
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