If there is any question about the impact humans have made on each other’s lives, one simply needs to listen to Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Several phrases come to mind, but one phrase in particular will ring through your head as you read The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin—“Belgians in the Congo.” By meticulous writing of his research and observations, Dr. Pepin will help you understand the zoological, political, social, and medical climate that both allowed and augmented the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) within the Congo and beyond.
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