The Hot Zone

What is the rate of AIDS infection in that area?

Chap 28

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No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with HIV. Most of them will die of AIDS. Many of their newborn children will also contract AIDS and die of the virus in childhood.
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Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 380). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.