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Fri Jul 19 2002 at 5:43:55
I gave up on
Edward Hooper
's
tome
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
after reading 380 out of its 1000+ pages. It's a well-written and exhaustively
research
ed
book
, but it goes into excessive detail.
The fundamental
hypothesis
is fascinating. Hooper argues that early applications of the
polio vaccine
in
Africa
may have introduced
AIDS
into the
human
population. Certain
monkey
s and
chimpanzee
s have
simian immunodeficiency virus
es (
SIV
's), which are genetically similar to
HIV
. Some oral polio vaccines were generated by passaging the
polio
virus
through
primate
kidney
s. Hooper investigates whether a polio vaccine, contaminated with SIV's, may have transferred the virus to
humanity
.
The
theory
sounds plausible, though the
evidence
supporting it is circumstantial. For example, the
geographic
region and time period where AIDS first appeared coincides with the large-scale
testing
of one variety of the polio vaccine.
However, the
scientific
and
medical
establishment
attacks the theory vehemently. As an outsider, it's difficult to tell whether the criticisms are justified.
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