Frankdee20
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What do most people who remember 2 brave journalists (Ed Hooper, and Tom Curtis prior to him) confronting/exposing the scientific community about the origin of HIV/AIDS think ? During the race to establish a Poliomyelitis vaccine in the 50's, one particular team allegedly used chimpanzee tissue as viral substrate in Belgian Congo, Africa. The dangers of doing so, without further purification methods, allowed SIV-40 (believed to be ancestral HIV) to end up in inoculated populations. Interestingly enough, the first confirmed case of HIV was traced back to a man from Kinshasa, who died in 1959. Does this theory sound more plausible than the hunter theory of bushmeat practices responsible for SIV jumping ship to humans ? It's intriguing to say the least, and I know it's been circulating since 1992, and I know the Royal Academy of scientists shut it down quickly. It makes you think though.