Edward Hooper’s The River came out in 1999. A fuller account of his latest findings appears in Origin of HIV and Emerging Persistent Viruses, the proceedings of a conference held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
“After 27 million deaths and the infection of more than 66 million people with HIV, there are now strong indications that human hands – in particular, those of the doctor and the scientist – started the Aids pandemic. This is not the theory of origin favoured by most in the medical establishment.”
More than a thousand pages long and the fruit of a decade’s work, The River amounts to something more than the attempt to track down the source of Aids. It is, in fact, three books rolled...
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