HIV was born in the Congo in the 1950s, when millions of people were given the oral polio vaccine. Because chimpanzee sera was used to amplify the vaccine, authorities unknowingly facilitated the mutation of SIV into HIV.
The millions of injections gave SIV millions of chances to mutate, and that is why we have several different strains of HIV that emerged in roughly the same time period.
This article serves as a modern introduction to the hypothesis, and also counters a lot of the falsehoods that have been put forth by Nature and Science regarding the origins of HIV.
The best source is a book by the same author called The River. It is very long, but masterfully written and extremely well-documented.
This documentary on the subject is also excellent, and contains footage of some of the people who worked on the oral polio vaccine admitting that they had used PTT chimp sera to amplify it.
HIV was born in the Congo in the 1950s, when millions of people were given the oral polio vaccine. Because chimpanzee sera was used to amplify the vaccine, authorities unknowingly facilitated the mutation of SIV into HIV.
The millions of injections gave SIV millions of chances to mutate, and that is why we have several different strains of HIV that emerged in roughly the same time period.
I'd never heard that chimp serum was used in the polio vaccine. Wild if true; can you provide a reference on that?
There is no record of SIV having ever made the jump to humans before the 1950s vaccination campaigns in the Belgian Congo.
http://www.aidsorigins.com/more-supportive-of-opv-aids-than-of-the-bushmeat-hypothesis-a-revised-response-to-the-recent-faria-paper-in-science/#more-217
This article serves as a modern introduction to the hypothesis, and also counters a lot of the falsehoods that have been put forth by Nature and Science regarding the origins of HIV.
The best source is a book by the same author called The River. It is very long, but masterfully written and extremely well-documented.
http://www.aidsorigins.com/the-river-a-journey-to-the-source-of-hiv-and-aids-2021-edition-by-edward-hooper/#more-3529
This documentary on the subject is also excellent, and contains footage of some of the people who worked on the oral polio vaccine admitting that they had used PTT chimp sera to amplify it.
https://youtu.be/HoBjkZv_Bp0