# The Chimp and the River

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- Book: [The Chimp and the River](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-quammen/the-chimp-and-the-river) ([The Chimp and the River.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-quammen/the-chimp-and-the-river.md))
- Authors: [David Quammen](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-quammen)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-395-1
- Published: 2015-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The real story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human and infected more than 60 million people - is 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 Spillover , with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp population s in the jungles off the southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where and how such a consequential 'spillover' can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data, The Chimp and the River tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.