Virus hunt the search for the origin of hiv aids pdf 1ehcowiykg virus hunt the search for the origin of hiv aids by emeritus professor of medical microbiology dorothy h crawford oxford university press united kingdom 2015 paperback book condition new reprint 196 x 139 mm language english brand new book the hunt for the origin of the aids virus began over twenty years ago it . The hunt for the origin of the aids virus began over twenty years ago it was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how when and where the virus first infected humans dorothy h crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of africa home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus and reveals how hiv 1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east cameroon examining how this happened and how it then travelled . Scottish virologist crawford viruses a very short introduction celebrates the brilliant evolutionary sleuthing that helped solve the puzzle of the origins of hiv a virus unlike any other that has now infected over 60 million people the university of edinburgh professor explains that those hunting for the source of the virus that causes aids collectively scoured the medical literature hunted for old blood samples to test for hiv and painstakingly analyzed genomes from around the world