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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Hooper |
| ISBN: | 0316372617 9780316372619 0316371378 9780316371377 |
| OCLC Number: | 39905078 |
| Description: | xxxiii, 1070 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | I. The river in cross section: frozen moments of flow : Frozen in time: 1959 ; Frozen in space: a rural epicenter in Africa -- II. From trickle to flood: "A mysterious microbe": early evidence of AIDS in North America ; High days and holidays: the Haitian interchange ; Early traces in Europe ; HIV and AIDS in Central Africa ; False positives, and the specter of contamination ; The Manchester sailor ; AIDS in the pre-AIDS era? -- Theories of origin, propounded and refuted ; Gerry Myers and the monkey puzzle tree -- III. A new hypothesis of source : AIDS and polio vaccines ; The race to conquer polio: early research and inactivated polio vaccines ; The race to conquer polio: oral polio vaccines ; Dr. Dick and Dr. Dane ; "What happens when science goes bad" ; Louis Pascal ; The counterattack begins -- IV. European feeders : An untimely passing ; The Congo trials ; Primate immunodeficiency viruses ; Pierre Lépine and the Pasteur Institute ; The Norwegian sailor ; Switzerland and Sweden ; An introduction to HIV-2 ; Paul Osterrieth and Fritz Deinhardt ; The quieting of Louis Pascal -- V. The passage through the pools : A man of many ideas ; Hilary Koprowski, opening moves ; The West coast trials ; The East coast trials, and the question of informed consent ; At the CDC ; Tom Norton ; Hilary Koprowski, end game ; Other views, other voices, from Lederle to the Wistar ; David Ho -- VI. Whirlpools and sinkholes : Bill Hamilton ; The two sailors ; From the archives ; Ghislain Courtois ; Stanley Plotkin ; Le Laboratoire Médical de Stanleyville ; The chimpanzees ; The Belgian vaccine ; The threats begin ; Alexandre Jezierski -- VII. Charting the course : The HIV-2 enigma ; Infection by mouth ; Preston Marx and an alternative hypothesis ; Natural or iatrogenic transfer? ; What happened at Letchworth and Clinton ; What happened at Lindi ; Where CHAT was fed ; Correlations with early HIV and AIDS ; Starburst and dispersal ; Dead ends and hidden bends -- VIII. How a river is born : The rechanneling of history ; When the levee breaks -- Appendices : A. Arguments for and against the OPV/AIDS hypothesis ; B: Experiments and investigations that could be conducted to shed further light on the OPV/AIDS hypothesis. |
| Responsibility: | by Edward Hooper. |
Abstract:
Now in paperback, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting examines the myriad theories about the origin of AIDS and offers compelling evidence that an experimental polio vaccine administered in Africa in the 1950s led to one of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history. of photos & maps.
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