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The origins of AIDS /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pepin, Jacques, 1958-
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
HIV infections > Africa.
HIV infections > Etiology.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa.
Emerging infectious diseases > Africa.
HIV Infections > history.
HIV Infections > etiology.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > history.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > history.
Disease Vectors.
HIV-1 > pathogenicity.
History, 20th Century.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Out of Africa
  • The source
  • The timing
  • The cut hunter
  • Societies in transition
  • The oldest trade
  • Injections and the transmission of viruses
  • The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun
  • The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo
  • The other human immunodeficiency viruses
  • From the Congo to the Caribbean
  • The blood trade
  • The globalisation
  • Assembling the puzzle
  • Epilogue: Lessons learned.