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Chapter 17 - Epilogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2021

Jacques Pépin
Jacques Pépin
Affiliation:
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Thirty-nine million deaths later, are there any useful lessons that can be drawn from the tragedy of AIDS? Or was it just an extraordinary confluence of chance events, unlikely to ever be repeated? In retrospect, two factors probably drove the transformation of SIVcpz into pandemic HIV-1. Even if their respective contributions will never be fully sorted out, there is little doubt that without both of them the pandemic would not have developed.

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The Origins of AIDS , pp. 332 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Epilogue
  • Jacques Pépin, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Book: The Origins of AIDS
  • Online publication: 05 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767019.018
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  • Epilogue
  • Jacques Pépin, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Book: The Origins of AIDS
  • Online publication: 05 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767019.018
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  • Epilogue
  • Jacques Pépin, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Book: The Origins of AIDS
  • Online publication: 05 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767019.018
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