Viral sex the nature of AIDS - Goudsmit, Jaap (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index
1. The Most Disarming Virus -- 2. The Rise of the Western AIDS Epidemic -- 3. HIV Baby Booms: Epidemics Rise and Fall -- 4. The Rain Forest Roots of HIV-1 -- 5. HIV-O and HIV-1: The Chimpanzee Connection -- 6. HIV-2: The Sooty Mangabey Connection -- 7. Searching for SIV in Monkey Mummies -- 8. Beyond SIV and HIV: The Cat Connection -- 9. The Mystery Suitor: HIV's Next Move -- 10. Viral Sex and AIDS: Response to Instability -- 11. Retrovirus Survival: The Human Threat -- 12. Human Survival: Vaccines to Disarm HIV.
Discusses the origins of the HIV virus, its connection to the SIV virus in African monkeys, and historical events which triggered the AIDs epidemic in the 1970s