| 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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