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Virus Hunt

The Search for the Origin of HIV

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Virus Hunt

By: Dorothy H. Crawford
Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.

©2013 Dorothy H. Crawford (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Contagious Diseases History & Commentary Physical Illness & Disease

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For me this book reads more like an immature college paper that’s been submitted to the professor for marking rather than like a mature book should. For example, it has an introduction that tells you what the book is about; could be just me, but that’s what I thought a book synopsis was for.
This following quote is pulled word for word from the second chapter “…When the Nobel prize committee decided to award the most prestigious prize in science to the french team Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi most scientists felt that right had finally prevailed when the Nobel prize committee decided to award the most prestigious prize in science to the french team Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi. Most scientists felt that right had finally prevailed…” It is possible that if some form of quality control were employed then this error would’ve been picked up.
In the third chapter it states “…lifelong carriage of several herpes viruses, including the cold sore and chicken pox viruses, is the norm…” The author probably didn’t intend for sentence to read like Chicken pox was a herpes virus, but that what it sounds like. A half decent editor should’ve picked that up.
As for the narrator, the sspeakerss voisce consstantly comess out like a ssnakessss. Maybe not a deal breaker and you could probably get used to that if the content is to your liking.
Look, the author probably knows what they’re talking about and the synopsis for the book certainly makes it sound interesting, So if you don’t mind reading a University paper rather than a book and are willing to sift through a few errors then you might enjoy this book.

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