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.
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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