University of Arizona, Tucson
HIV-polio vaccine theory refuted
Published in AIDS Weekly and Law, May 13th, 2004
The data should help to end speculation that the immunodeficiency virus jumped to humans after polio vaccines became contaminated with a simian form of the virus, said authors of the Brief Communication in Nature.
The oral polio vaccine (OPV)/AIDS theory claims that chimpanzees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were the source of a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) that was transmitted to humans when chimpanzee tissues were allegedly used in the preparation of OPV. Michael Worobey and colleagues at the...
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