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American Origin of AIDS
Maurice Hilleman was well aware of simian viruses
contaminating vaccines, having personally discovered
SV40 in 1960 in polio vaccines. In a youtube.com video
entitled "Merck chief brings HIV/AIDS to America,”
posted by prolific AIDS origin researcher Leonard G
Horowitz, Hilleman is recorded telling his colleagues, "I
brought African greens [monkeys] in. I didn't know we
were importing AIDS virus at the time [i.e., between
1970-1974]. His colleagues are heard laughing. Someone
says, "It was you who introduced AIDS virus in." This
shocking interview, conducted by Edward Shorter for
WGBH public television, was cut from the TV
documentary, based on Shorter's book "The Health
Century" (1987), due to liability issues, undoubtedly
reflecting poorly on Merck where the vaccine for gays
was developed. Hilleman's assertion gives credence to
the "conspiratorial" view that the most likely source of an
AIDS-causing simian immunodeficiency virus
(SIV) virus was from a laboratory, and not from the wilds
of Africa.
The close timeline between the hepatitis B vaccine trials,
as well as the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in the
participants, and the outbreak of the "gay plague" can
hardly be denied. There are few sources, outside of
medical journal reports, that reveal details of the
experiment. The best source is June Goodfield's "Quest
for the Killers" (1985), in a chapter entitled 'Vaccine on
trial.' She emphasizes the dangerous aspects of the
vaccine experiment, due to the pooling of the blood, as
well as the concern regarding possible contamination of
the vaccine. Hers is the only source revealing that
some of the vaccine was made by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). "Was something wrong with the
vaccine, possibly contamination This was no theoretical
fear, contamination having been suspected in one vaccine
batch made by the National Institutes of Health, though
never in Merck's."
THE SIMIAN VIRUS ORIGIN OF HIV
Determining the simian ancestry of HIV is not the same
as determining the origin of the AIDS epidemic in
America. HIV is emphatically a "new virus" in humans,
although its origin in simians may be ancient. The
American AIDS epidemic clearly began in the late 1970s.
The purported African origin of American AIDS is
largely based on the genealogy of the AIDS virus in
Africa. I could never understand why scientists never
looked for a simian ancestor of HIV in the various
primate virus labs and primate colonies in the U.S.
The simian "roots" of HIV depend on who is doing the
genetic analysis. Some researchers claim that HIV has
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been circulating in humans since the 1930s, others date it
back a century or more. A new "phylo-geographic"
study suggests monkey SIVs are ancient and date back
32,000 to 75,000 years (Worobey et al, 2010).
The public was first told that HIV originated in Africa in
green monkeys. This changed in 1999 when a
SIV found in chimpanzees was widely accepted as the
closest ancestor virus of HIV (Gao et al, 1999). Four
years later, geneticists reversed themselves again,
claiming HIV "didn't start its life in chimps" but arose
through hybridization of two monkey strains of SIV that
recombined in the chimpanzee host (Bailes et al, 2003).
In other words, the ancestors of HIV were a mix of
monkey immunodeficiency viruses transferred into
chimps, which subsequently recombined to form a new
hybrid virus with mixed genetic material. By the way,
chimps are considered apes, have bigger bodies than
monkeys, and are most closely related to humans.
Monkeys have tails and are structurally closer to fourlegged
animals like cats and dogs.
Lost in all this conflicting genetic mumbo-jumbo, that
few people can comprehend (including myself), was the
fact that extensive mixing of simian viruses and the
creation of hybrid viruses was going on for years in
labs around the world in the years immediately
preceding AIDS. This, in fact, is the basis of the AIDS
"conspiracy theory," which proposes that the ancestor of
HIV most likely originated in animal species transfer
experiments in a virus laboratory. Yet this explanation is
never considered by scientists. These genetic
studies of HIV origin, widely reported in the major
media, continue to reinforce the public perception that
HIV/AIDS started in Africa.
There is no attempt made here to fully explain the origin
of the horrible outbreak of AIDS in Africa beginning
around 1983. This will up to future medical historians to
unravel. Suffice it to say that sub-Saharan Africa has
been the testing ground for pharmaceuticals and vaccines
for many decades, and for massive vaccine programs
with reuse of needles which could also spread HIV from
person to person.
In "AIDS and the Doctors of Death" (1988), I mentioned
a London Times explosive front page article connecting
AIDS to extensive vaccine programs in Africa, and
entitled "Smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus" (May
11, 1987). Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, was
quoted as saying, "The link between the WHO program
and the epidemic is an interesting and important
hypothesis. I cannot say it actually happened, but I have
been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines
such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant
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