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File Size: 697 KB

Print Length: 175 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 16, 2015)

Publication Date: February 9, 2015

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B00NWTPH68

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Read this book in two days! Absolutely fascinating! I had read Edward Hoopers book "The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS" which gives account to the possible origins of HIV to the polio vaccine campaign conduced in Africa, but David Quammen's book investigates further. I don't want to spoil this book, but I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested with the origins of HIV and how it has become one of the biggest pandemics known to man. Wonderful book!

It's been a while since I read a book on AIDS. I saw this book when I was getting other books on infectious disease, and put it aside for future reading. I had read "And the Band Played On" about 20 years ago, when I started working in a Lab on HIV. I knew so much had been found out concerning AIDS and where it came from. But much of this book was a surprise to me. I always felt that we didn't know the whole story about when AIDS actually started to infect the human race. The research that has been done in monkeys and apes, to determine the relationship between SIV which is simian immunodeficiency virus and HIV. Quammen provides a lot of background into what had previously been known and talked about. When I teach microbiology to my students I want to impress upon them the importance of knowing where these diseases come from. So many of the emerging diseases today are zoonoses, meaning they come from animals. Human invasion into habitats that used to rarely be seen by humans is introducing new viruses that some animals could live with, and others that were killers, no matter what the species.Quammen does a good job with the science. He obviously has a lot of practice in both the research and the writing. This book was incredibly interesting and definitely filled in gaps in my knowledge. I would recommend that readers be a bit familiar with AIDS before tackling this book. It assumes that the readers have a background in AIDS.

Quick read about the history of HIV. I didn't quite realize before purchasing (although I think it's clear, I just didn't pay attention) that this is taken from another of his books. He references that a few times in this book, and glosses over some details that I think must be explained in further detail in the larger work. I would have liked to see more discussion of some of the biology, as he does often skip the details of how exactly how the microbiologists have derived their findings. Also, be warned that a good chunk of the middle of the book is pure speculation about the Cut Hunter hypothesis and how the virus may have spread to other humans from the Cut Hunter. That was a bit disappointing from a science writer.If you are looking for an easy to read introduction into how scientists trace zoonotic diseases, this will be a great book for you! If you want something more in-depth, I would suggest reading Spillover or Pepin's more in-depth book.

A good but not a great book. Basically it says "The AIDS virus developed in this geographical area in Cameroon, as a disease in chimps. Somehow, through blood-blood contact, it jumped to one or a few people and figured out how to survive. One of those people made it to the big city (then Leopoldville, now Kinshasa), had sex, and spread the disease. A few other people got it, but it was no big deal until, many years later, it found its way into people who left Kinshasa and took it around the world." The interesting part is the sleuthing the virus back to that corner of Cameroon more than 100 years ago - the first part of the book. After that it becomes pretty dry and drab.

Was looking forward to reading this book due to working in the medical field. Most of the book was very factual and enlightening, but some fictional guessing went into parts. It's a good read, but did not realize it was from the "Spillover: Animal Infections . . ." by the same author. I also bought Spillover, should have read it first and not purchased this one. But a good read nonetheless.

Mr. Quammen is a gifted writer and I'm glad he's given us this fascinating account of the origin of the AIDS pandemic. Just a heads up to help others who might otherwise repeat my mistake--I discovered after receiving the book that it is just one chapter of his book Spillover, which examines other zoonotic diseases as well. Had I known that I would have bought Spillover instead.

I am on page 91 of 140. This is a wonderful book that builds on information found in the "Patient Zero" episode from Radiolab podcast. The recreation of the "First" HIV carrier is long and unnecessary but overall well written and accessible to the public despite the medical heavy topic.

As a microbiologist student this is an absolutely fantastic book! Quammen is a great writer and I think this book would be fascinating to any reader, scientist or not!

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