In this frightening and fascinating masterpiece Walter Isaacson, David Quammen explores the true origins of HIVAIDS.The real story of AIDShow it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million peopleis very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammens hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential spillover can happen.
