streptomycin, 130
susceptible populations, increased density of, 126
SV40 virus, 52
Swaziland, 132
Sylvain (boatman), 83, 92, 93, 94
syphilis, 129, 130
syringes, reuse of, AIDS and, 23, 24, 108, 126–31, 139
Tanzania, 63
T cells (thymus-dependent lymphocytes), 18, 22, 25, 85
Tchuialeu, Moïse, 73, 83
Terio, Karen, 121–23, 124
tetanus, 51
Teuwen, Dirk, 56
T-helper cells, 25
thresholds, of infectious diseases, 128
Tio people, 105–6
TMRCA (time to most recent common ancestor), 60
transmissibility:
blood-borne, 20–21, 24
human-to-human, 20–21
vertical (mother-to-offspring), 119
see also spillover; specific diseases and pathogens
Trypanosoma brucei, 126
trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), 108, 126–29
tryparsamide, 126, 128
tsetse flies, 126, 129
tuberculosis (TB), 137
UCLA Medical Center, 17–18
UNESCO, 133
urine sampling, 63, 113, 114, 117
USAMRIID (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), 65
virions, 85, 86
virulence, and evolution of host-virus relationship, 31
see also specific pathogens
Virus (Montagnier), 24
viruses:
RNA, 58, 59, 64, 118
transmissibility of, see transmissibility
virions of, 85, 86
virulence of, see virulence
Vivian (Buy’em-Sell’em), 92–93, 94
Voyager, 88–91, 96–108
World Health Organization (WHO), 133
World Wildlife Fund, 74
Worobey, Michael, 49–50, 56–62, 69, 109, 128–29, 136–38
Wrangham, Richard, 113, 114, 118
Yaoundé, Cameroon, 73–75
yaws, 130
Yokadouma, Cameroon, 76–78
Yolanda (chimpanzee), 120–25
Zaire, see Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Zaireanisation, 134
Zaire ebolavirus, see Ebola virus
Zambia, 132
Zhu, Tuofu, 45–46
ZR59, 46, 50, 59–60, 72, 108, 131, 138
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