Edward Hooper's site on the Origins of AIDS
Items related to conferences on the origins of AIDS.
Paul Redfern, The East African (Nairobi), September 21, 2000
© 2000 AllAfrica, Inc
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.
Joey G. Alarilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 2000
© 2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer
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”
Jon Cohen
Science, Vol. 289, 15 September 2000, pp. 1850-1851.
LONDON, ENGLAND–For 2 days this week, the staid Royal Society hosted a spirited, sometimes raucous, meeting on the origin of the AIDS epidemic, the first such gathering ever held. At center stage was a controversial theory that a contaminated polio vaccine tested in Africa more than 40 years ago sparked the epidemic. The theory took a hit when researchers revealed that tests of old samples of the vaccine provided no supporting evidence, and the main proponent of the theory, British writer Edward Hooper, endured a verbal battering himself from several prominent scientists. But Hooper, unbowed, got in plenty of jabs of his own.
Von Stefan Klein, FACTS, September 14, 2000
© 2000 TA-Media AG
Aids Hat ein Polio-Impfstoff die Seuche ausgeloest? Der Verdacht ist vorerst entkraeftet. Der Kampf geht weiter.
Panafrican News Agency, Africa News, September 13, 2000
© 2000 AllAfrica, Inc
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
© 2000 News Aktuell – DPA Firmengruppe
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 Huntly Collins, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2000
© 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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”
Guardian (UK), Tuesday 12 September 2000
James Meek, science correspondent
The disturbing and fiercely disputed theory that the Aids virus was unleashed accidentally by western medical researchers in Africa in the 1950s gained new impetus yesterday, with the emergence of fresh witness testimony about the use of chimpanzees in an African mass vaccination trial.