Edward Hooper's site on the Origins of AIDS
Joey G. Alarilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 2000
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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.
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
Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2000; from Daily Telegraph (UK), 12? September 2000.
Continue reading “Did the March of Progress Bring AIDS to Africa”
Von Stefan Klein, FACTS, September 14, 2000
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Aids Hat ein Polio-Impfstoff die Seuche ausgeloest? Der Verdacht ist vorerst entkraeftet. Der Kampf geht weiter.
By Huntly Collins, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2000
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LONDON _ The claim that the AIDS epidemic was set off by scientists at Philadelphia’s Wistar Institute during polio vaccine tests in Africa in the 1950s suffered more blows here yesterday as the Royal Society of London concluded scientific debate on the topic.
Continue reading “Scientists Reach no Conclusion on AIDS-Polio Vaccine Connection”
Panafrican News Agency, Africa News, September 13, 2000
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DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) – The World Health Organisation has refuted a theory that HIV, the virus which causes the incurable disease AIDS, was spread to the general population by an experimental polio vaccine used in Central Africa in the 1950s.
Continue reading “WHO Rejects Claim That AIDS Came From Polio Vaccine”
OTS Originaltextservice, September 13, 2000
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Auch der Bericht einer Expertengruppe hat den Forscherstreit um die angebliche HIV-Verbreitung durch fruehe Polio-Impfstoffe nicht beendet. Wie die Wochenzeitung DIE ZEIT berichtet, hielt der britische Journalist Edward Hooper, Autor des Buchs “The River”, waehrend einer Pressekonferenz in der Royal Society in London seinen Vorwurf aufrecht, bei der Erprobung eines experimentellen Polio-Impfstoffes in Zentralafrika seien Impflinge womoeglich durch HIV-verseuchte Vakzinen infiziert worden.
Continue reading “Forscherstreit um Angebliche HIV-Verbreitung”
By Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times, September 12, 2000
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Tests have failed to support a theory that the worldwide AIDS epidemic was touched off because an experimental oral polio vaccine used in Africa more than 40 years ago was made from chimpanzee tissue, scientists reported yesterday in London.
Continue reading “Tests Fail to Support Theory on AIDS and Role of Chimpanzees and Vaccine”
Patricia Reaney, Reuters, Philadelphia Daily News, September 12, 2000
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AIDS experts yesterday dismissed a theory about the origins of the HIV virus which suggests the disease was spread to humans through a contaminated polio vaccine used in Africa in the late 1950s.
Continue reading “Vaccine-AIDS Link Dismissed Scientists say Virus Predates Polio Serum”
Nigel Hawkes, The Times (London), September 12, 2000
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NEW tests have exploded the theory that the Aids epidemic was started by a contaminated polio vaccine in Africa.