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Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS

Autor Jaap Goudsmit
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 1997
The AIDS threat has mobilized an unprecedented research effort to understand and control the disease. We have discovered its agent, HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Every day we know more about this complex retrovirus and how it works, but we still lack an effective defense strategy. This book will give the nonspecialist an AIDS overview and a vantage point from which to observe and support the continuing struggle with HIV. It also will urge that we look beyond this deadly virus. As we seek vaccines and therapies to stop its fatal course, we must understand that the real cause of AIDS is not HIV. It is the environmental context that allowed the virus to escape its natural host and enter the human population at this particular time in history. The question is why, after millenia of contact between African monkeys and humans, has SIV (Simian immunodeficiency virus) only now entered the human population in plague proportions? Is its introduction a purely random and natural disaster, or is it somehow the result of human social and cultural evolution? This book explains how human encroachment on the African monkey habitat set up conditions that made it possible and almost likely that the virus would successfully jump to a new host, with the consequences that we now see as the world wide AIDS epidemic. It presents the full history of the various subtypes of the virus, and the epidemics they cause, and assembles the future threats in every region of the world. The book argues that facing our responsibility for the AIDS outbreak holds the key to reversing the damage. If we study our actions and this lethal natural reaction, we can find ways to halt the AIDS and prevent similar plagues that could erupt in the future.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195097283
ISBN-10: 0195097289
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: black and white photographs and line figures
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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a valuable stimulus for debate
It is a well-written and provocative treatise about the origins of HIV and about the evolution of this most perplexing virus. As such, it is far from outdated
Readers familiar with HIV/AIDS will encounter much that is provocative and engaging. General readers will find the book accessible because Goudsmit takes care to explain technical sections and concepts in simple and understanding ways