dîdîthegrâve a écrit :
Putain j'ai regardé le reportage. Ca file la nausée...
Ce Hilary Koprowski et ces belges serait donc les responsables du Sida. Ca file les jetons sur le niveau de conscience de ces gens là.
wikipedia a écrit :
UK journalist Edward Hooper, who read a (subsequently retracted) 1992 article in Rolling Stone magazine on the "oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis" by freelance journalist Tom Curtis, put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertently caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Hooper travelled to Africa for 7 years of research into the subject, before publishing a book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared in chimpanzee kidneys or blood was the route through which the SIV mutated into HIV, some time between 1957 to 1959. The supplemental evidence collected since the publication of The River culminated in the production of the film The Origin Of Aids.
Koprowski responded to the accusations that he may be the creator of an epidemic disease in a letter to Science.
Some members of the scientific community do not believe these allegations against the polio vaccine are true. Analysis of frozen samples of some of the lots used for vaccine production has found no traces of SIV or HIV. The same analysis proves that those lots were produced on macaque and not on chimpanzee tissue. It remains unclear whether chimpanzees may have been used at later stages of the vaccine production. On one hand there is no evidence for that in the reports documenting the vaccination trials, on the other hand caretakers, interviewed by Hooper and who had worked at a local facillity of the vaccination project, witnessed the removal of kidneys from living chimpazees, something which is usually only done for preparing tissue cultures as used in vaccine production.
More recent articles have shown that SIV exists in populations of chimpanzees in Cameroon. Further analysis of these findings have lead some scientists to believe that hunters were infected with HIV as early as the 1930s not the late 1950s as Hooper claims. Hooper rejects the 1930s date on the basis that phylogenetic dating of "the most recombinogenic organisms known to medical science", immunodeficiency viruses, is "inherently incapable of making any allowance for recombination".
