The Origins of AIDS (49 page)

La Fontaine, Jean,
100

La Semaine de l’AEF
,
99

Lake Albert,
154

Lake Tanganyika,
88

Lake Tchad,
59

Lambaréné,
210

Lambotte, Claude,
159

Lasnet, Alexandre,
36

League of Nations,
44
,
66
–7,
155

Leclerc, Philippe de Hautecloque dit,
74

Legrand, Jeanne,
159

Lemba district,
7

Léopoldville
See
Kinshasa

Leplae, Edmond,
44

leprosy

See also
Caloncoba
,
chaulmoogra
,
methylene blue
,
sulphones

clinical characteristics of,
134

epidemiology of,
150
,
165
,
177

treatment of,
134
–6,
139
–40,
148
,
154
,
177
,
224

Lesotho,
9
,
207
,
213

Lever palm oil company,
70

Liberia,
8
,
172
–3,
175
,
190

Libreville,
61
,
63
,
69
–70,
73
,
210
,

Libya,
74
,
99
,
108
–10

Lingala,
76
,
90
,
101

Lisbon,
171

liver cancer,
154

Liverpool,
121

Loango,
60
,
63

London,
121
,
217

Londres, Albert,
36

Los Alamos National Laboratory,
40

Los Angeles,
1

Louisiana,
208

Lovanium university,
181

Lubero,
154

Lubumbashi,
76
–7,
94
,
95
,
153
–4,
181
,
212
,

Luluabourg,
76
,
154

Lumumba, Patrice,
76
,
183
–6

Lusaka,
212

lymphatic filariasis,
60

Madame Rose,
99

Mahale park,
26

Mahler, Halfdan,
217
–18

Mai-Ndombe region,
3

Makala district,
79
,
100

malaria

in chimpanzees,
53
–5

epidemiology of,
136
–7

treatment of,
136
–7,
140
–1,
150
–1,
224

See also
chloroquine
,
quinacrine
,
quinine

Malawi,
9
,
212
,
231

Malaysia,
190

Malebo Pool,
62

Malembo,
60

Mali,
8
,
57
,
173
,
175
,
190
,
213

Managua,
206

Mann, Jonathan,
215
–20

Marburg haemorrhagic fever,
43

Marseilles,
34
,
37
,
118
,
120
,
121
,
124

Martinique,
60

Matadi,
64
,
76
,
182
,
184

Matadi–Léopoldville railway,
34
,
36
,
63
,
69

Matete district,
100
,
101

Max Planck Institute,
52

Mayo Kebbi district,
137

Mayombe,
20
,
34
–6,
37
–9,
47
,
148
,
150

Mbuji-Mayi,
16
,
212

Medical Research Council Laboratories,
3

melarsoprol,
4
,
128
,
176

ménagères
,
88
–9

mercury salts,
131
,
133

methylene blue,
135
–6,
139
,
148

Mexico,
60
,
199
,
203

Mfoa,
63

Miami,
190
,
195
,
201
,
202
–3,
204

migrants

in Abidjan,
213

in Brazzaville,
80
–2,
98

in Douala,
82

in Europe,
214

from Haiti,
190

HIV among,
176

in Léopoldville,
70
–1,
74
,
75
,
80
–2,
102
,
160
–2,
165
–6,
227
,
228
–9

in North America,
13

Milan,
106

military medicine,
118
–20

Mimongo district,
92

Mobutu, Joseph Désiré (Mobutu Sese Seko),
6
,
82
,
184
–7

molecular clocks,
39
–42,
109
,
111
,
175
,
195

monkeypox,
43

monkeys,
31
,
43
,
46
,
51

Montpellier,
120

Montreal,
190
,
194
,
206

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
,
1
,
234

Morocco,
66

Moscow,
186

Mouvement National des Congolais,
183

Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution,
217

Mozambique,
9
,
173
,
175
,
213

mulattoes,
89
,
98
,
159

Musée de l’Homme,
34

Nachtigal, Gustav,
65
–6

Nairobi,
85
,
102
,
211
,
212

Nakajima, Hiroshi,
218

National Institute for Biological Standards and Control,
52

Ndjili airport,
79

Ndola,
96

ndumbas
See
prostitution

New Mexico,
216

New York,
1
,
106
,
190
,
191
,
204
,
214
,
233

New York Times
,
201
–3

New York University School of Medicine,
52

Ngiri-Ngiri district,
100

Ngoko River,
228

Nicaragua,
206

Niger,
8
,
175

Niger delta,
65

Nigeria

chimpanzees in,
19

history of,
66
,
155
,
190

HIV in,
8
,
9
,
14
,
15
,
168
,
173
,
175
,
214
,
231

slaves from,
60

Nile delta,
110
–11,
150

Nilodin,
150

Nioki,
3
,
32
,
212

Nkoltang,
131

Nola,
141
–2

northern Rhodesia
See
Zambia

Norway,
190

Norwegian sailor,
9
,
170
,
196

Ntem region,
225

nucleotide sequencing,
11
,
13
,
22
–3,
39
,
168
–70

Nyungwe reserve,
26