Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

The real story of AIDS, how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people, is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent…

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