Did a Polio Vaccine Experiment Unleash AIDS in Africa?
SCIENCE HAS accepted the possibility that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is a variant of a virus found in monkeys and chimpanzees. But no one knows how it jumped the species barrier to humans. I am strongly impressed by evidence that AIDS can be traced to one early polio vaccination program.
Many in the scientific community and the establishment media deride such a notion. But the record shows that by 1961, many scientists worried about the possible danger to humans of monkey viruses in polio vaccines, which are usually manufactured using monkey kidneys. Indeed, when scientists learned that a particular monkey virus - called SV40 - found in much polio vaccine could cause tumors in young hamsters, they quickly banned from further use any vaccine carrying SV40. …
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