The Hot Zone
Why is the Kinshasa Highway referred to as the AIDS highway?
Chap 28
Chap 28
From the text:
The road to Mount Elgon is a segment of the AIDS highway, the Kinshasa Highway, the road that cuts Africa in half, along which the AIDS virus traveled during its breakout from somewhere in the African rain forest to every place on earth.Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (pp. 373-374). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.