The primary exception to that is its spread among drug abusers, who use contaminated needles to inject themselves. Repeated analyses have shown, the authors argue, that AIDS became epidemic only in regions where the number of each person’s sexual partners was high, either in African villages or in the gay enclaves of San Francisco and other western cities. Those concurrent sexual relationships provided the tinderbox that allowed the spark of HIV to take full flame. Cultural norms in the region allowed men to have several wives, as well as multiple sexual partners outside of marriage. European exploitation thus allowed the virus to escape its natural habitat.īut Africans themselves shared much of the blame for the virus taking root, Halperin argues. Steamships plying the region’s rivers and the newly developed railroads allowed the virus to travel much faster than had ever been possible. Porters toting their loads of precious cargo carried it across the previously uncharted jungles, allowing it to spread much more widely than before. But Halperin argues that European efforts to exploit Africa’s vast resources of rubber, ivory and other materials provided a unique push to the virus. That event had probably happened hundreds of times in the past, perhaps even more. Genetic evidence strongly indicates that the AIDS pandemic originated in southeastern Cameroon sometime between 18, most likely when a hunter butchering a chimpanzee infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the precursor of HIV, became infected through a cut on his body. But the overall tenor of the book reflects the personal views of Halperin, a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Prevention Research Project. Timberg, a former Johannesburg bureau chief for the Washington Post, witnessed much of the AIDS pandemic firsthand, and the book is filled with the stories of individuals who suffered from the disease and battled against it. Onto this stage now comes “Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It,” by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin. Also not surprising, the tone of these tomes has become gloomier as the difficulties of fighting this scourge have become clearer and the prospects of defeating it seemingly bleaker. Harper.Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and the How the World Can Finally Overcome Itįew diseases have been the subject of more books than the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with such notable works as Randy Shilts’ 1987 volume “And the Band Played On: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic” and Laurie Garrett’s 1995 “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Disease in a World Out of Balance.” Not surprisingly, writers have been able to paint a more complete picture of the emergence of this deadly disease as new genetic research and other insights have revealed how the plague began and how it spread. Harper #booktokfyp #fantasybooktok #fantasybookrecs #indieauthortok #supportindieauthors #greenscreen". ![]() ![]() for entrusting me with this video! I’d love to do more of these and spotlight other authors, so if you want your very own video, hit me up!) Don’t read this □ E. You have been warned‼️ (In all seriousness, thanks to W.A. Simpson is a fantasy novel to avoid at all costs if you enjoy diverse casts, unique worldbuilding, and magic aplenty. Harper #booktokfyp #fantasybooktok #fantasybookrecs #indieauthortok #supportindieauthors #greenscreenĢ38 Likes, 27 Comments. ![]()
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