History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic.

The author, Mirko D. Grmek, a world renowned authority on AIDS, presents the story of the AIDS virus and its subsequent development into a virulent, fatal disease that has become an international epidemic.

Several narratives overlap in this compelling work. One is the coexistence of human beings and viruses. A second strand follows the hunt to isolate the specific killer virus--a search that leads to laboratories in the U.S. and Europe. The third thread is a...