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.
Forscherstreit um Angebliche HIV-Verbreitung
Forscherstreit um angebliche HIV-Verbreitung durch Polio-Impfstoffe haelt an
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.
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Scientists Reach no Conclusion on AIDS-Polio Vaccine Connection
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.
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WHO Rejects Claim That AIDS Came From Polio Vaccine
Senegal; WHO Rejects Claim That AIDS Came From Polio Vaccine
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.
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Tests Fail to Support Theory on AIDS and Role of Chimpanzees and Vaccine
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.
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Vaccine-AIDS Link Dismissed Scientists say Virus Predates Polio Serum
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.
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Poliovaccine Testing Results are Not the Endgame
Origin of AIDS: Poliovaccine testing results are not the endgame!
A compilation of media reports on the testing of Wistar polio vaccine samples, by Billi Goldberg, 12 September 2000
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Tests Discredit Chimp Theory on HIV
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.
HIV’s Link to Polio Vaccine Doubted
Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY, September 12, 2000
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Tests of polio vaccine stored for nearly half a century undercut the notion that the AIDS virus leapt from monkeys to man through polio shots given to African children in the 1950s, experts said Monday.
New Row Over Origin of AIDS Virus
Does fresh evidence prove western researchers unleashed HIV by experimenting on chimps in Africa?
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.