RIVER, THE

Fifteen million people in the world have already died of AIDS. Another fifty million people are HIV-positive. Yet the origins of this devastating disease are still shrouded in mystery. Having explored virtually every theory proposed to explain AIDS, Edward Hooper offers his own compelling conclusions. In this timely investigation he argues that an experimental polio vaccine tested in Africa in the 1950s inadvertently gave rise to a lethal and infectious new disease and provides a meticulously-researched account of the evidence in support of this controversial claim.