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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Jennings |
ISBN: | 9780936571119 093657111X |
OCLC Number: | 789234205 |
Description: | xvi, 197 pages ; 28 cm |
Contents: | New York City: the epicenter of AIDS. The first legitimate AIDS clusters -- The first 1000 AIDS cases in the United States -- AIDS migrates overseas -- The AIDS epidemic comes of age -- The monkey fallacy. The contaminated monkey theory -- The homegrown American monkey virus -- The other American monkey viruses -- HIV's American relatives -- The monkey fallacy propagates -- The chimpanzee has no clothes -- The African fallacy. The first African patients, diagnosed in Belgium -- HIV antibody testing, an avalanche of false positives -- The WHO provisional surveillance definition -- African versus classical AIDS -- Outliers, the exception as the rule -- When hype equals hypotheses -- And then came HIV-2 -- Appendix: the earliest purported cases of AIDS. |
Responsibility: | by Chris Jennings. |
Abstract:
"The scientific literature is clear: (1) New York City is the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic; (2) the theory that HIV came from monkeys is a fallacy-- the theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination; and (3) the African AIDS epidemic-as-holocaust never manifested. Based on a forensic review of over 3000 scientific and medical journal articles, HIV/AIDS : The Facts and the Fiction redefines global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection, and has powerful implications for HIV/AIDS funding, research prerogatives, and global health care interventions."--Publisher's website.
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