Author: Horowitz, Leonard

This is the first in-depth exploration into the origins of the world's most feared and deadly viruses-HIV and Ebola. Did they evolve naturally in monkeys and then jump to humans, as most theories hold? Could modern advances in cancer research and genetic biotechnology have given rise to these epidemics accidentally? Or, more frighteningly, could they have been deliberately planned by a network of cold-war virologists and germ-warfare researchers?