AIDS caused by vaccination made from contaminated monkeys

United States
August 31, 2008 6:52pm CST
i watched a documentary and it said that they think that aids got started in africa during some period when they ran low of vaccines or there was a plague and they needed a mass amount of them and so they "skipped" a few steps such as testing the monkeys they get some of the ingredients from and some of them were infected and since it was made locally that is why africa is hit so bad and im guessing with the kids growing up they infected their parents etc.. what do you think about this? it makes more sense than anything else i have heard..
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@Uroborus (908)
• Canada
1 Sep 08
The vaccine hypothesis started from an article published in Rolling Stone magazine in the 1990s. In the article it is claimed that the HIV virus was inadvertently spread as a result of research conducted into the development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s. Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the scientists doing the research, sued Rolling Stone magazine, after which the magazine issued a statement saying that they really had no proof and that they did not mean to suggest Dr. Koprowski was responsible. Genetic research since the 1990s has shown that this theory is unlikely. There is no one theory that has been conclusively proven, but the one that is most widely accepted, and has the most evidence supporting it, is the one that the virus jumped from chimpanzees(not monkeys)to people in Cameroon sometime during the French colonial era. The French conducted labour camps and created other stressful conditions for the people of Cameroon. Such stress, and unsanitary conditions, will lower a persons immune system. If such an individual is then bitten by a chimp they have trouble fighting off the virus. The people in Cameroon also hunt chimps for food, creating another avenue of infection, by either being cut while hunting and cleaning the meat, to eating it. They have done this for a long time, but the horrible conditions of the labour camps provided the conditions for the virus to take hold. The way that vaccination sometimes gets mixed in with this widely accepted theory, is that the French also practiced forced non-sterile vaccination programs on the people of Cameroon, often using one needle among many people. This helped to spread the disease when it had taken hold in people, but vaccination was not the source of the virus jumping from chimps to humans.
• United States
1 Sep 08
hmm interesting.. didnt know about the whole labour camps thing
@Galena (9110)
1 Sep 08
well that sounds much more likely.
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@uath13 (8192)
• United States
5 Sep 08
Also add to the fact that misquitos could have been transfering the original strain from monkeys to humans around the labor camps & it makes pretty good sense.
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
6 Sep 08
yes i believed that and it happened first in a black country.sorry if i am wrong.
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• United States
6 Sep 08
yeah africa.. at least thats the only place i have heard no matter what theories.. so far at least..
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
7 Sep 08
thats what all i know also from africa.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
6 Sep 08
I have heard so many different theories. Odds are it is a huge government science project that got out of hand.. If they could test birth control pills on PuertoRicans and radiation on mentally challenged people, AIDS falls right in line with that.
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• United States
6 Sep 08
when in doubt blame the government.. they seem to do things sooooo awesommely lol
@4aps777 (1528)
• United States
1 Sep 08
that is about the 4th story they came up with about it.the very first story was someone was helping a wonded monkey cut his self and the blood mixed and got affected.
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• United States
2 Sep 08
yeah but then you would think they would have tied it easier to that being the source with all the people that treat hurt animals.. notice a pattern etc
• Malaysia
6 Sep 08
Wow... kinda scary reading the origin of such a killer disease. I don't really pay much attention on how these diseases were formed because it's already here. I hope they find a cure for it but it's been years and years of researching and still no breakthrough.
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• United States
6 Sep 08
yeah well at least they have made the life span after diagnoises a lot longer.. in the 80-90s was 7 years after being told you have it and now its like 21 or 24 years after.. so at least something positive has happened.. just wish it was better