The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

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by David Quammen


  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

  The Chimp and the River

  was extracted and adapted from

  Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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  “[Mr. Quammen] is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period. . . . That he hasn’t won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment. . . . A patient explainer and a winning observer. His gallows humor is superb.”

  —Dwight Garner, New York Times

  “A frightening and fascinating masterpiece.”

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  “A literary crescendo.”

  —April Dembosky, Financial Times

  “Science writing as detective story at its best.”

  —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American’s

  Cocktail Party Physics blog

  “An adventure-filled page-turner . . . told from the front lines of pandemic prevention.”—Lizzie Wade, Wired

  “Masterful.”—Florence Williams, New York Review of Books

  “David Quammen [is] one of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling.”

  —Nathan Wolfe, Nature

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  “David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane.”

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  ALSO BY DAVID QUAMMEN

  NONFICTION

  The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

  Monster of God

  The Song of the Dodo

  Spillover

  Ebola

  ESSAYS

  Natural Acts

  The Boilerplate Rhino

  Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

  The Flight of the Iguana

  FICTION

  Blood Line

  The Soul of Viktor Tronko

  The Zolta Configuration

  To Walk the Line

  EDITED

  On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: The Illustrated Edition

  The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000, with Burkhard Bilger

  Copyright © 2015, 2012 by David Quammen

  Extracted from Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, updated and with additional material.

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  Quammen, David, 1948-, author.

  The chimp and the river : how AIDS emerged from an African

  forest / David Quammen.

  p. ; cm.

  “Extracted from Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human

  Pandemic, updated and with additional material.”—supplied by publisher.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-393-35084-5 (pbk.)

  I. Quammen, David, 1948– . Spillover : animal infections and the next human

  pandemic. Based on (work): II. Title.

  [DNLM: 1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome—etiology—Popular Works.

  2. HIV—pathogenicity—Popular Works. 3. Zoonoses—Popular Works. WC 503.3]

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