September 2000 – AIDS Origins

28th September 20007th May 2020

Was Bad Science The Source Of Aids In Africa?

Africa-at-Large; Was Bad Science The Source Of Aids In Africa? (Commentary)

Sam Mwale, The East African (Nairobi), September 28, 2000

Nairobi – For most of this year, South African President Thabo Mbeki has rubbed the global HIV/Aids establishment the wrong way by questioning whether Aids is caused by the HIV virus. He got his answer at the global conference on Aids in Durban in June. The scientific and medical establishment has closed ranks on the cause of Aids: it is HIV, period.

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25th September 20007th May 2020

AIDS Weekly

ETIOLOGY: No AIDS-Related Viruses or Chimpanzee DNA Found in 1950s-Era Polio Vaccine

AIDS Weekly, September 25, 2000

Tests performed by three independent laboratories on 1950s-era polio vaccine samples from The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, failed to find any traces of SIV, HIV-1, or DNA indicating that chimpanzee cells were used to prepare the vaccine, according to the scientist who coordinated the testing.

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21st September 20007th May 2020

Africa News

Paul Redfern, The East African (Nairobi), September 21, 2000

Nairobi – The Two sides in the increasingly bitter row over the origin of Aids appeared to be as far apart as ever following a conference on September 11 at the Royal Society in London.

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21st September 20007th May 2020

Bitter Debate on Polio-Vaccine Theory of AIDS

Africa-at-Large Bitter Debate on Polio-Vaccine Theory of AIDS

Wairagala Wakabi, Paul Redfern; The East African, September 21, 2000

Nairobi – The Two sides in the increasingly bitter row over the origin of Aids appeared to be as far apart as ever following a conference on September 11 at the Royal Society in London.

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17th September 20007th May 2020

Mystery of AIDS Origin Remains After Scientists Discount ‘Hooper’

Huntly Collins, Knight Ridder Newspapers; The Macon Telegraph, September 17, 2000

Until last year, the name Edward Hooper would have registered with virtually no one in the field of AIDS research.

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17th September 20007th May 2020

Mystery of AIDS Origin Remains

Mystery of AIDS origin remains after scientists discount ‘Hooper’

By Huntly Collins, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17, 2000

LONDON _ Until last year, the name Edward Hooper would have registered with virtually no one in the field of AIDS research.

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17th September 20007th May 2020

Scientists Toss Hooper Theory on AIDS Origin

Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), September 17, 2000, Sunday

LONDON – Until last year, the name Edward Hooper would have registered with virtually no one in the field of AIDS research.

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16th September 20007th May 2020

AIDS Wars

The Economist, Vol. 356, 16 September 2000, pp. 87-88.

A meeting in London has destroyed the idea that AIDS was the accidental result of a polio-vaccination campaign conducted in the 1950s. But the disease’s origins are still mysterious

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16th September 20007th May 2020

New Study Disproves Polio Vaccine Theory

SCIENCE AND HEALTH NEW STUDY DISPROVES POLIO VACCINE THEORY

Joey G. Alarilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 2000

IS the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic the result of a contaminated polio vaccine? No, according to new tests debunking this theory originally posed in the late ’80s, which has been revived by a book published last year.

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15th September 20007th May 2020

Did the March of Progress Bring AIDS to Africa

Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2000; from Daily Telegraph (UK), 12? September 2000.

Matt Ridley in London says the evidence suggests that polio vaccine researchers in the 1950s unwittingly unleashed the pandemic that is ravaging Africa.

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