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The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS Paperback – December 1, 2000

by Edward Hooper (Author), Bill Hamilton (Contributor)

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Examines the possible source of HIV, analyzing a number of theories concerning its origins and investigating current scientific inquiries into HIV, AIDS, and the search for a cure.

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Paperback: 1168 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1st Back Bay pbk. ed edition (December 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316371378
ISBN-13: 978-0316371377
Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 70 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diseases & Physical Ailments > AIDS
- #48 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Diseases > AIDS & HIV
- #56 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Vaccinations

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S. Keefe

This is the truth about HIV and how we got it started by trying to accomplish a good thing. The establishment that provided that

September 14, 2014

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The truth can come in many forms. This is the truth about HIV and how we got it started by trying to accomplish a good thing. The establishment that provided that link will probably never acknowledge their part in that - whether for the historical record or the financial record. It takes less energy and humanity to say something is not so rather than admitting that it was a human mistake made without intention but still made none the less. This is the ultimate cautionary tale.

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Bri

Could not put it down

April 5, 2018

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Very in depth book about the possibility of HiV coming out of 1950s polio vaccine work in the Belgian Congo. Quite a page turner that really explores many possible avenues that may have led to the world wide epidemic of HIV. Fascinating read about the race for a vaccine against polio and the use of wild simians to develop it.

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Kevin Coleman

An opus by Ed Hooper. He would have been ...

January 18, 2017

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An opus by Ed Hooper. He would have been short listed for a Nobel prize had he been part of establishment. HIV / AIDS was/is substantially iatrogenic after all. Essential reading for all students of infectious disease. We will never know the whole truth, but Catherine Hogan et.al. confirm the suspicions of Ed Hooper and William Hamilton that this was a coverup of the greatest medical mishap of the 20th Century. Detailed, erudite, and restrained. The River inspired the Writing of Monkey Business: a story of Soulmates and Primates.

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Joan Mazza

Reads like a literary mystery

January 26, 2000

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Though a long, complex, and technical book, THE RIVER held my daily interest until I had finished it. A masterpiece of investigative journalism written by a man with high interpersonal intelligence who understands the human side of science and its pitfalls. Hooper discusses other possible dangers of cross-species transfer of viruses in the use of transplanted animal parts in humans. Science, Hooper demonstrates, must include careful documentation, followup, and open, honest discussion. A rush to solutions can be more dangerous than the original problem. A must read for anyone in public health or concerned with the AIDS epidemic.

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great book and informative

June 8, 2014

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a recomended read the author has made a good argument for his research.
and from allthe other research i have read about on the subject his still seems the most plausable.
anyone who reads this book will come off with a greater understanding of the path of hiv from its possible origin and initial spread.

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albert champion

LOTS OF PAPERCLIPS

December 13, 1999

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When I read a book that tells me new and important things about the world that I have been living in, i note the pages with important info with paperclips. This book is easily a 100-200 paperclip book.
Only other books that compare to this in my large library, devoted to the history of the USA since 1933, are THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes and THE ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN WAR by Bruce Cumings.
I have yet to finish the book, I am only finished with chapter 39[out of 58], but these 535 pages were consumed in two evenings, late.
The fascination for me was learning about a set of medical research activities of which I was unaware. From my high school biology I had learned that vaccines were cultured in eggs. What a shock to learn that live polio vaccines were cultured from the cuisinarted kidneys of wild primates.
As of page 535, my only complaint is that I would have liked Hooper to have spent a chapter, with photos, illustrating the mechanism[s] of vaccine production.
As Hooper has developed the recounting of his odyssey, so far, it seems to me clear that there have been a number of knowledgeable medicos who looked the other way when confronted with the Koprowski procedures, a number of medicos who buttoned their lips after the loose scientific procedures went astray.
In closing, I want to add that I passed this book by for weeks because I felt that there was nothing new that I could learn about viral diseases[HIV, AIDs]. And then I read a squib in a newspaper recently where the CDC was recommending that live[oral] polio vaccinations be discontinued as the entire method of polio vaccination. When I read that, I immediately ordered this book.
Vaccines as a business. As a claim to gold and glory.
A perfect sidelight history on the postWW2 era.
Indispensable for understanding the investigative process as it pertains to causation.
The best investigative book of the decade.

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Peter Savage

Tremendous Piece Of Investigative Journalism

January 24, 2000

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If there was a Nobel Prize for Journalism, Hooper should get it. Step by step he takes you through his investigations and interviews, seeking to prove the link between the sudden appearance of HIV-1 and some shabbily-constructed mass trials of a polio vaccine in the 1950s. In a vanity contest with Sabin and Salk, the lesser-known Koprowski took various experimental shortcuts that seem reckless in hindsight. It's amazing to see the way Hooper cuts through the obfuscations and obstructions of the science establishment, and sifts facts from the few living people associated with the trials. With the casual racism of the day, these were mostly conducted in the Congo, or on handicapped children or newborns at prisons and hospitals in the US. A sneaking suspicion that 'Hooper may be right' builds into almost total conviction that this theory bears intensive investigation by the time you reach the halfway mark. Almost incredibly, the records of these 'trials' -- I put them in quote marks because they were not properly conducted, by any scientific standards of today, or of the time -- are either incomplete, or 'missing.' The book reflects no credit on the drug industry, doctors' codes of secrecy, or medical ethics. Quite probably, if Hopper has it right -- and it seems he does -- some of the living players ought to be facing a grand jury investigation, in view of the millions who have suffered in the resulting plague of AIDS. It's the science book of the year, unparalleled since Rhodes' "Making Of The Atomic Bomb."

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Found a beautiful 1st edition

August 12, 2017

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Found a beautiful 1st edition, Anyone who is interested in the truth behind HIV and the AIDS epidemic should read this book.

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