The river a journey to the source of hiv and aids is very different from books typically reviewed in the american journal of epidemiology most have a strong epidemiologic focus and are not designed to promote a particular point of view the sole agenda of this book is convincing the reader that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 hiv 1 infection in humans originated inadvertently from the large scale evaluation of a live attenuated poliovirus vaccine in africa in so doing it has . The river a journey to the source of hiv and aids edward hooper hailed both for its revelations and its intense readability this extraordinary work of investigative reporting examines the myriad theories about the origin of aids and offers compelling evidence that an experimental polio vaccine administered in africa in the 1950s led to one of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history. Pdf on jul 1 2002 philip alcabes published re the river a journey to the source of hiv and aids find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Edward hooper penguin press gbp25 pp 1070 isbn 0 713 99335 0 rating graphic1 graphic2 graphic3 does it really matter how aids started not long after aids was described in the united states europe and haiti it became evident that several countries in sub saharan africa had far greater proportions of people already affected