"On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vaccinated in the largest mass vaccination campaign ever. Polio virtually disappeared from the continent and Jonas Salk became a hero.
But not long after, 260 children who were vaccinated with Salk's vaccine became sick. Eleven of them died. An investigation showed that some lots of the vaccine were defective and confidence in it was shaken.
Two scientific greats, Dr. Hilary Koprowski, director of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, and Dr. Albert Sabin, a physician at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, raced to replace the Salk vaccine. Dr. Cecil Fox, a pathologist at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases remembers that it was an intense competition.
Both Sabin and Koprowski's vaccines were derived from monkey organs. They needed to test them in large, non-immunized population groups, no longer available in North America.
Sabin traveled to the U.S.S.R. and vaccinated more than 6 million people in Latvia, Estonia and Kazakhstan between 1958 and 1959. No AIDS cases emerged in the U.S.S.R. where Sabin did his testing.
Koprowski moved his study to the Belgian Congo which had one of Africa's more modern health care infrastructures at the time. Between 1956 and 1960 more then 1 million African people were 'encouraged' to receive Koprowski's vaccine called CHAT.
Sabin analyzed Koprowski's vaccine in 1958 and found it be be 'unstable and contaminated by an unknown virus'. He told Koprowski about his discovery and went then went public with his findings."
helterskelter808
05-04-2013 04:59 PM
I thought they had traced HIV back to 19th century Africa?
wehateporn
05-04-2013 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
(Post 19611932)
I thought they had traced HIV back to 19th century Africa?
In monkeys yep, then the question is how it jumped across :thumbsup
seeandsee
05-04-2013 05:11 PM
and someone took it from monkey and spread it out, and make billions on medicaments
Babaganoosh
05-04-2013 05:27 PM
I thought we were banning conspiracy idiots now?
...or is that just what "THEY" wanted me to think?
TheSquealer
05-04-2013 05:28 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by wehateporn
(Post 19611937)
In monkeys yep, then the question is how it jumped across :thumbsup
Yeah, because a continent full of people that hunt, kill, butcher and eat monkeys contracting it is such a huge leap of logic.
wehateporn
05-04-2013 05:29 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
(Post 19611965)
I thought we were banning conspiracy idiots now?
...or is that just what "THEY" wanted me to think?
I'm a mod here now, enjoy your ban :1orglaugh
Arnox
05-04-2013 06:06 PM
Inconsistent with what we already know about the breakdown of HIV strains in various groups.