In virus hunt renowned virologist dorothy h crawford takes us inside one of the great research quests of our time the search for the origin of aids from hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories to the african rain forests crawford follows the trail of the virus back to its roots deep in africa. Virus hunt the search for the origin of hiv dorothy h crawford oxford univ 2795 224p isbn 978 0 199 64114 7 buy this book scottish virologist crawford viruses a very short . Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more virus hunt the search for the origin of hiv in searchworks catalog skip to search skip to main content. 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 . It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how when and where the virus first infected humansdorothy 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