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I highly recommend this book to everyone. It is technical but
very revealing and Dr. Horowitz provides documentation throughout this book.
I have read it 3 times. It is one of the best books I've ever read.
Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature,
Accident or Intentional?
by Leonard G. Horowitz,
Reviews: Booknews, Inc., June 1, 1996
Horowitz (public health author) presents thoroughly researched
information in his exploration into the origins of the HIV and Ebola viruses.
His bias toward the theory that HIV was introduced into the general population
by vaccine experiments conducted in New York City and Africa, is apparent. He
generalizes from this thesis that the AIDS epidemic may have been deliberately
deployed as a genocide tactic as part of the CIA foreign policy activity in
Central Africa. The volume is characteristic of a "conspiracy genre," and as
such presents its facts with an eye toward a predisposed conclusion. Annotation
c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Midwest Book Review: Health professionals and those involved in
infectious disease research will find Emerging Viruses startling: Harvard researcher
Horowitz's studies gather evidence to conclude that AIDS and the Ebola viruses
evolved during cancer virus experiments in which monkeys were infected with
viral genes from other animals. Certain to spark controversy, this provides
quite a different view of virus mutations and evolution.
Hardcover - 544 pages Limited edition (July 1996)
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues
by Christopher Wills
The major purpose of plagues and epidemics is not population control.
Rather, the germs that cause them are primarily striving to stay alive in the
best possible conditions. Wills presents fascinating, well-documented accounts
of how various bacteria, viruses, and other microbes have, over the centuries,
adapted to changing conditions to achieve those goals.
Paperback - 336 pages (September 1997)
A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging
Viruses
by Robin Marantz Henig
Synopsis:
How did the HIV virus first infect human beings? What plagues
are likely to ravage us in the future? This fascinating book sums up all that
we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they spread, and how scientists
are trying to outwit them. Henig interweaves theory with real-life medical dramas.
Illus.
Paperback - 269 pages Reprint edition (February 1994)
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