New book charts the history of deadly AIDS virus

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How the AIDS epidemic REALLY began: New book charts the history of deadly virus to its origins in rainforest in Cameroon in 1908 and NOT Paris and NYC in early 1980s

David Quammen traces the history of AIDS in his new book, The Chimp and the River. He says AIDS began in Cameroon around 1908 when a hunter in the rainforest was infected by a chimp he killed.