9]koprowski now claims that the "congo
preparation" in which albert sabin found
"an unidentified cell-killing virus" was
not a vaccine,but rather a seed-lot
virus.Certainly if anyone knows the
facts,it should be koprowski,but all the
evidence from 1959 suggests that this new
claim is incorrect.When discussing this
issue at the first international
conference on live polio virus vaccines in
1959,both albert sabin and sven gard (who
was then working at the wistar
institute)referred to the fluid that they
had tested as chat vaccine,as did joseph
melnick,another very precise
scientist,when introducing the
subject.Koprowski himself,in a letter
rebutting sabin's claims ,which was
published in the british medical journal
in may 1959,merely refers to the chat pool
tested by sabin,without specifying wether
this was a vaccine pool or the parent
seed-lot of attenuated poliovirus.The
significance of this debate is that if
indeed there was an simian immune virus
contaminant,it would be much more
plausibly found in a sample of the final
vaccine( made up in kidney tissue culture
from an unknown monkey species) than in
the plaque-purified seed-lot of polio
virus,from which further batches of
vaccine would be made..10]with respect to
his sudden switch,in the fall of 1960,to
advocating human diploid cell strains like
wi-38 as a suitable substrate for growing
polio vaccines,rather than monkey kidney
tissue culture,koprowski now writes that
"the desire to replace the monkey kidney
vaccine did not arise from concern about
its safety"..This is a remarkable
statement,and is at odds with statements
made by himself and other virologists in
1960 and 1961,when the annoucement of the
presence ofthe apparently tumergenic
simian virus number 40 in polio vaccines
made in rhesus and cynomolgus kidneys(as
he now claims his were) was causing
genuine alarm.In the "host cell" section
of his own 1961 article from the journal
of the american medical association,which
he cites,koprowski does indeed begin by
arguing that there is no cause for
alarm,in that hundreds of millions of the
worlds population have already been
exposed to simian virus number forty in
ipv and opv "without any known harmful
consequence".However,in the next two
sentences he strikes an entirely different
tone,stating:""it would be more difficult
to justify scientifically a stand that
nothing should be done in the immediate
future about the host cells in which
poliovirus are grown.Not only has the
existence in monkey tissue of the dreaded
b virus(which is definitely pathogenic for
man)has been known for some time,but it is
clear that tissues obtained from the next
batch of killed monkeys may contain more
virus surprises..11]finally,more than half
of the twenty-four numbered footnotes in
the text of the letter fail to correlate
with the references at the end.If this
does little to reassure about the
thoroughness and reliability of the
author,it also says very little for the
subediting at science.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-12-06 19:16pm
Towards the end of his letter to
science,koprowski reveals that"there is no
vaccine stored at the wistar
institute",but that "there are a few vials
of tissue culture supernatants available
that may be represent seed lots used for
vaccine production between 1957 and
1959".He says that any compitent research
laboratory could test these seed-lots of
attenuated poliovirus if it also used the
appropriate positive and negative
controlls.But then he adds a rider."if the
seed lot is found free of exogenous
retroviruses which is highly
probable),contentous individuals could
still argue that this does still not
represent what might have been present in
the large lot of vaccine".He begins,in
other words,by appearing to encourage
independant scientists to test the
samples,but end by arguing against
it...Koprowski closes the letter as
follows:"the current anxiety amoung
parents of children who have been or are
going to be vaccinated against polio
followed dissemination by the lay press of
unproved theories about the origin of
aids.This was unnecessary and
harmful,particulary because the vaccine
was tested thoroughly before any
vaccination was done;the vaccine was and
continues to be safe."...Although this
sounds conciliatory,it actualy confuses
the issue.Koprowski seems to be implying
that any critisism of c.H.A.T (as made in
the fifties) also impugns the safety of
the current sabin o.P.V...In fact,curtis
has made it very clear that he has no wish
to initiate a panic about the safety of
current polio
vaccines...Furthermore,koprowski's clam
about the safety of c.H.A.T is not backed
up by any factual evidence in the
article.It would have been far more
reassuring had his letter itemized the
specific safety tests that were conducted
on c.H.A.T before it was used on
humans.(which are only rather vaguely
described in the literature),and if -in a
spirit of scientific openness-he had
advocated the release of stored samples of
the c.H.A.T seed lots and vaccine samples
for retrospective testing..It would also
have been more reassuring if this -his
responce to curtis's questioning of the
safety of c.H.A.T,submitted after he had
nearly six months to marshall his
thoughts-had not been so riddled with
inaccuracy and error.In the end,it was
this very letter-his sole published
attempt to defend himself against the
questions raised by curtis's article-which
convinced me that the o.P.V/aids theory,in
contrast to so many of the others,merited
some further serious
investigation...Edward hooper....At a
later time to this ,one vial has been
shown to be free of virus.This was an in
house test and not done publicly.This has
been used to make the amazing claim that
c.H.A.T was clean and not responsible for
the hiv outbreak....This is nonsense.If
these were honest people all vials would
have been made public.,and if one was
indeed clean,and we only have their word
that the test was honest,then the rest
must have been dirty,(contaminated with
siv and lord knows how many other simian
viruses)..Or they would have been waving
them around.They keep the proof hidden but
we are smart sentients who can use
deduction and corroboration...So the
medical community wont own up to one mans
mistake.This is very suspicious.Prehaps we
have more here than just human error here,
and that is why they have closed ranks
and wont admit the truth.
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stef46
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Posted: 12-12-06 21:34pm
Hiv-aids did not come from oral polio
vaccine contaminated with chimpanzee
virus, reports a research team led by a
university of arizona evolutionary
biologist.
Belief that polio vaccine can spread aids
has hampered the world health
organization's efforts to stamp out polio.
In nigeria, several states recently
banned use of the vaccine. Nigeria now
has the highest number of polio cases in
the world.
Although scientists agree that hiv comes
from a chimpanzee simian immunodeficiency
virus (siv) that infected humans, when and
how siv jumped the species barrier has not
been definitively determined.
The researchers found and sequenced
genetic material from a new strain of siv
present in wild chimpanzees in the
kisangani region of the democratic
republic of congo (drc).
The new siv is not the one from which
hiv-1, the virus responsible for the human
aids pandemic, originated. The research
shows that the new siv resides on a
different part of the siv family tree.
One theory about the origin of hiv-aids
alleges that tissues from chimps from the
vicinity of kisangani were used in
preparing oral polio vaccine, thus letting
the vaccine be contaminated by siv.
"we found a new simian immunodeficiency
virus, sivcpzdrc1," said michael worobey,
an assistant professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology at the university of
arizona in tucson. "it's a new variant of
siv, and it's not closely related to
hiv-1." finding the new strain of siv in
chimpanzees near kisangani shows that
hiv-1 did not originate from polio
vaccines that were tested in that area in
the 1950s.
The team's research article will be
published in the april 22 issue of the
journal nature.
Worobey's coauthors are beatrice h. Hahn,
george m. Shaw, mario l. Santiago, and
brandon f. Keele of the university of
alabama in birmingham, jean-bosco n.
Ndjango, bernard l. Labama and benoƮt d.
Dhed'a of the university of kisangani in
the democratic republic of congo, jeffrey
b. Joy of simon fraser university in
burnaby, british columbia, and andrew
rambaut of the university of oxford and
paul m. Sharp of the university of
nottingham in england.
The research was funded in part by the
wellcome trust, st. John's college
oxford, the rhodes trust, the royal
society, the national institutes of health
and the howard hughes medical institute.
Previous studies have linked all variants
of hiv to the chimpanzee subspecies native
to the countries to the west of the
democratic republic of congo (drc).
However, genetic diversity of the pandemic
strain of hiv, known as hiv-1 group m, is
highest in the drc.
So the drc is an important place to look
for clues about the origins of aids and
specifically to test the oral polio
vaccine/aids theory.
"i wanted not just to test the opv/aids
theory, but also to collect fundamental
data from a crucial area," worobey said.
Easier said than done.
Although recent technological advances
have made it possible to test feces for
rna, the genetic material of siv and hiv,
one still has to collect the specimens.
Despite civil war in the region, worobey
traveled to the democratic republic of
congo in 2000 and in 2003 to collect fresh
samples from wild chimps in the kisangani
area.
"the fresher, the better," he said.
"basically you want to pick it up the same
morning they let it go."
he worked with a team of hunters that
track the chimps at night using their
calls. The team carefully stored small
samples of feces in little screw-capped
vials filled with a preservative.
The 2000 trip met with some calamities.
Worobey contracted blood poisoning from a
rattan palm spike that stabbed his hand.
He hiked out of the forest to seek medical
attention. His two companions, jeffrey
joy and the well-known evolutionary
biologist w.D. (bill) hamilton, came down
with malaria. Hamilton later died from
complications.
The feces collected on that trip didn't
yield any siv genetic material, although
tests of chimpanzee urine suggested that
virus from the sivcpz family was present
in some of the chimps.
On his 2003 trip, worobey was luckier.
Although the work was strenuous -- he
hiked about 200 miles through the
rainforest collecting samples -- health
wasn't an issue. And he met with the head
of security from one of the rebel groups,
who gave worobey "a very nice letter that
was very handy indeed."
even so, out of 97 different samples
collected, only one contained any siv.
But that was enough -- the analysis
revealed a brand-new strain, which worobey
and his colleagues named sivcpzdrc1.
"bill (hamilton) died after that first
trip, and that's why it was so nice to go
back and finish what we started," worobey
said. "i was surprised that we finally
got something after so much blood and toil
and tears and sweat -- but not surprised
where the virus fell on the phylogenetic
tree."
having the sequence of the new siv's
genetic material definitively shows that
hiv-1 didn't come from chimpanzees in that
area, he said.
His next step is learning more about siv
from that region.
"this is one of only a handful of places
in the world where sivs are known to be
circulating in chimpanzees. We know hiv-1
comes from chimpanzees, but we know little
beyond this," he said. "i want to study
this geographic area -- get more samples,
understand how the virus is maintained and
transmitted in chimps, and understand why
the virus is so pathogenic in humans but
not chimpanzees."
contact: michael worobey
wo
robey@email.Arizona.Edu
520-626-3456
university of arizona .../.....This is the
garbage dis-information that one finds on
the internet and when the opv vaccine is
official proven ,these people need to be
challenged.So lets take a look..... The
researchers found and sequenced genetic
material from a new strain of siv present
in wild chimpanzees in the kisangani
region of the democratic republic of congo
...No one has ever suggested that the siv
that mutated to hiv came from these
chimps.We have learned that the c.H.A.T
vaccine was made from asian and african
chimps.Excised kidneys could have come
from any chimp and koprowski used excised
monkey kidney.They found a new siv...So
what!..What they are putting out is called
dis-information and I promise you oral
polio vaccine that chat used will be
proven as the cause.It many ways it is
already proven,its just the resistence
that persists.Opv is the truth otherewise
it would have been killed a long time
ago...We will continue to do just
that.,prove the case...So how many polio
cases does nigeria have? ;and how many
cases of hiv does nigeria have?The truth
will win out in the end.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-14-06 16:44pm
Polio came to prominence after world war 2
because we became too hygenic.Before this
we had a natrual immunity to
polio...Africans had and still do have
this immunity..So how was the convienant
outbreak in the congo in 1957 possible?It
was only in outbreak conditions that chat
were allowed to go in and use their
experimental vaccine(remember in northern
ireland it was concidered unsafe).Since
the people of congo in 1957 had a strong
natrual immunity to polio one has to
wonder how the outbreak started and why
africans should be used for polio
vaccination,since they have never suffered
from overhygene..While vaccination
programs have helped humanity ,they are to
easy to subvert and can easily be used for
popullation control.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-14-06 17:44pm
Curtis asked him why he thought no
scientist had tested any of the stored
polio vaccines.Ho replied:,"if you really
think about it,what do you have to gain
and what do you have to lose".He declined
to be more specific.He did
,however,acknowledge that monkey viruses
were a worry- and not just those in
vaccines.With reference to the recent
transplantation of a baboon liver to a
human,ho acknowledged."the baboon thing
gave many of us a lot of concerns because
you dont know whats in there,what could
possibly be transmitted.If the person
lives,then we are at risk of starting an
epidemic from some primate virus or
agent.The transplant was done in a hurry
and its clear many things were not thought
out...Wistar finally on october 22 1992
delivered an eight page official report.It
contained the usual denials and they
werent handing over the vials.One of their
admissions is important.Remember that
dis-information?..Wistar
say,"unfortunately ,the origin of the
kidneys used in the preparation of the
1957 vaccine is unlikley to be determined
with any certainty".Another was,"the
possible presence of siv or related virus
particles in the vaccine preparation
cannot be discounted";and "a limited
number of sample vaccine stocks available
at the wistar institute could be tested
for the presence of hiv/siv viruses..(of
course this was never done,because they
were dirty,dirty and dirty).Remember
monkey kidney cells are by fa5r the most
productive medium for vaccine making.Its
been estimated by edward that one pair of
monkey kidneys could produce up to 6
million doses of polio vaccine.Noting
this,at least one major european
manufacturer had recently abandoned the
production of vaccines in monkey kidney
tissue,the report endedwith," serious
effort is needed in the u.S and other
countries to effect a switch to well
characterized cell lines for vaccine
productions.In other words the kidneys
wernt safe,but they werent going to admit
that.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-14-06 18:37pm
I just heard on bbc world news an
astonishing statement.More people are
dieing in africa from malaria than
hiv.They curiously didny say the actual
numbers.I find this hard to believe,but
will reseach it...... Excerpt from
statsonline,about south africa,overall,
death rates from infectious diseases more
than tripled for males and increased
almost fivefold for females between 1997
and 2004. A large part of this
increase can be attributed to hiv, where
death rates have a distinctive age pattern
in which there is an increase to a given
age and then a rapid decline at older
ages. This peak occurs at between ages
30 and 34 for females, and between 35 and
39 for males.
Many hiv deaths are registered as due to
some other cause. Based on the age
pattern of death rates by sex, it is
likely that a high proportion of deaths
registered as due to parasitic diseases
and maternal conditions are caused by hiv.
This non-reporting of hiv deaths probably
conceals how many actual deaths result
from hiv. A challenge for researchers
is to find a way to determine how many
deaths are actually caused by hiv.
Until that has been accomplished, it is
not possible to know how many hiv deaths
there are by age, sex and year of death.
Between 1997 and 2004 there was virtually
no change in overall cancer death rates
for either sex, with cancer death rates
actually declining for those between 50
and 64.
There has been concern about mortality
from malaria, especially as drug-resistant
strains of the disease have become common.
Malaria death rates rose between 1997
and 1999, and declined between 1999 and
2004, although the overall death rate from
malaria in 2004 was 45 percent higher than
the 1997 value for males, and the overall
death rate from malaria in 2004 was 93
percent higher than the 1997 rate for
females. Were are the numbers
gentlemen?
Diabetes has also been of growing concern.
Adoption of a western diet, with lots
of fat and few fruits and vegetables often
leads to obesity. This increases the
risk of type 2 diabetes, which can be
fatal. For each sex, death rates from
diabetes and obesity rose between 1997 and
2004. Female death rates were higher
than male death rates, but the gap
narrowed over time. Obesity and diet
are an increasing concern for all south
africans.
Mortality rates from unnatural causes,
such as homicide, changed little between
1997 and 2004, although they declined
between ages 15 and 19, and older.....In
times of war,the bbc is a mouth piece for
the british govenment.If they make such
claims then give us the numbers.I suspect
as the opv/hiv facts become known ,people
dieing of aids will be attributed to other
diseases,so the numbers will appear
lower.;ie someone dies from the oppertune
disease like candidiasis,cervical
cancer,coccidiodomccosis,cytomegalvirus,en
cephalopathy,herpes
simplex,histoplasmosis,kaposis
sarcoma,lymphoma,mycobacterium avium
complex,pneumocoystis carinii
pneumonia,progressive multifocal
leukoencephalopaqthy,salomonella
septicemia,toxoplasmosis of the
brain,tuberculosis,wasting
syndrome(slim)..If hiv causes these and
the death is attributaed to the oppertune
infection rather than hiv ,you will have
of course ,"cooked the books" and will be
given out distorted figures.That is the
only way malaria can have more mortalaties
than hiv.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-14-06 20:28pm
I came across a remarkable article from
1989 named ,bulletin de la societe de
pathologie exotique,which detailed a stusy
of hiv prevalence in the very parts of
burindi where c.H.A.T had been fed in
early 1958.The research had been conducted
on 658 sera,which had originally been
drawn as part of a study into
arboviruses,conducted in 1980 and
1981.Desmyters investigations in kinshasa
in 1970 and 1980 represented the next
earlyest evidence of the presence of hiv
in central africa...The article was by
jacques morvan,bernard carteron,and
colleagues from the laboratory of clinical
biology at the army medical school in
bordeaux,and it provided dramatic evidence
of much higher hiv prevalence than any of
the previous papers,including the 1980
study that found that 3 percent of young
kinshasa mothers were hiv
positive.Overall,29 of the subjects
tested(4.4%) showed evidence of hiv
infection,although prevalence varied
greatly from region to region.In the
central plateau region,which makes up most
of eastern burundi ,there was zero
infection,where as the volcanic spine that
runs north to south which represents the
watershed between the rivers nile and
congo,2.89 percent of the sera were
positive.By contrast,in the capital
bujumbura over 8% were infected.A rural
zone in the west,"the plain of
limbo"(consisting of the ruzizi valley and
the shore of lake tanganyika) demonstrated
an overall prevelance of 3.66
percent.However, all the positive sera
either came from gihanga,a villiage in the
ruzizi valleysome fifteen miles north of
bujumbura, or from rumonge,a small fishing
center and port on the lake,roughly fifty
miles to the south.Prevalence in the later
place was exceptionally high,at almost
12%..There were a number of dramatic
inferences to be drawn.The first was that
the study revealed an unexpectedly high
prevalence in both urban and rural burundi
at the very start of the eighties,once
that already exceeded that in the huge
metropolis of kinshasa,congo-and that
therefore suggested an early seeding of
the virus..Second ,although there was a
significant difference between
urban(8.08%) and rural(2.82%)
seroprevelance,this was less pronounced
than might be expected.(in 1986 in rwanda
,for instance,the urban/rural differential
was over 13:1)furthermore,the rural
prevalence appears to be concentrated in
certain specific places such as rumonge
and gihanga.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-14-06 20:56pm
Third,these early pockets of high
seroprevelance were all in those places
were c.H.A.T vaccines had been fed in the
ruzizi/bujumbura/lake tanganyika field
trial in 1958.In areas where the vaccine
was not fed,hiv prevelance was markedly
lower.Indeed ,the only two positive sera
from outside the vaccinated zone both came
from places close to the main road running
from bujumbura through the
mountains,toward rwanda and uganda.This
tentatively suggested that hiv had arrived
first in the western lowland strip of
burundi,which included bujumbura,that it
subsequently diffused northward towards
rwanda,and that it was a long time before
it spread to eastern burundi..In
particular the high seroprevelance in the
lake port of rumonge suggested that the
long,narrow shape of lake
tanganyika,stretching more than four
hundred miles from bujumbura as far as
southern tanzania and northern
zambia,might have represented another
important route of viral diffusion-a
hypothesis that was afforded some support
by the relatively early appearance of hiv
infection in zambia.Just as the steamers
of the congo river were thought to have
facilitated the spread of hiv along a
east-west axis,so the steamers plying to
and fro along the lake tanganyika may have
seved as a north-south conduit for the
virus..I had now comeacross evidence of
widespread hiv infection in 1981 or
earlier ,two (kinshasa and western
burundi) were also places where c.H.A.T
had been fed,while the third(yambuku)lay
within one hundred miles of
where,according to gaston ninane,c.H.A.T
had been fed at either bumba or lisala.
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stef46
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Posted: 12-14-06 21:29pm
Before I left,i gave dr peeters a copy of
an article I had found,published in
1961,by courtois,ninane and osterrieth
from the stanleyville lab.It was a
breakdown of the blood groups of 175 of
the lindi chimps,the research having been
conducted in liege soon after the doctors
departure for the congo.The article
analyzed the bloods of 158 common
chimpanzees(pan troglodytes schweinfurthi)
originating from various locations on the
north bank of the congo river and 17 pygmy
chimpanzees(pan paniscus),an entirely
separate species that came from the south
bank.It was an intriguing piece,in that it
detailed remarkably wide-ranging
differences in blood characteristics among
pan troglodytes,which had come from six
different collection points,less than four
hundred miles apart in the tropical rain
forest.The most unusual
group,apparently,consisted of apes from
mambasa.(a small town in the heart of
theituri forest, which was home to a large
community of pygmies(human).From a
taxonomic viewpoint,the article was
proposing that these mambasa chimps should
be considered a new sub species of pan
troglodytes....I was thinking that putting
chimps from a widely different
geographical source and genetic types
together in a chimpanzee colony might be a
good way of encouraging a chimpanzee virus
from one group to pass to another
group..,and perhaps to assume a different
character.Perhaps this could make a virus
become more pathogenic,or more
transmissible.Maybe here,among the
chimpanzees from lindi camp and the
laboratoire medical de stanlyville,was
were one could find the missing link,the
siv that had ended up being transferred to
homo sapeins.
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stef46
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-16-06 16:53pm
C.H.A.T vaccination program is the only
vaccination program in history ,not to
have kept records.What did they excpect
was going to
happen???..........Vaccination programs
and scientists-doctors have a long history
of not informing the public of any
injuries or deaths in their programs.They
are hushed up so the public is not
worried,this is why they wont except a
proven theory,instead they stopped using
chimp /monkey kidneys but never gave the
reason why....Some of the tricks they use
is to say siv wouldent survive the
manufacture procedure,they dont replicate
the 1957 manufacture procedure but use
techniques, used decades later.!...How can
we trust such people.!.How do we know that
outbreaks arent intentional ,so they can
test the vaccine in third world
countries,so they can sell us (the
west)the vaccine???We have seen with
speculators that they are quite capable of
this and more...We should turn to natural
cures as western medicine is motivated to
make us sick.,there is no profit in
prevention or natures cures...Vaccination
was a great thing getting rid of small
pox,etc, but now its a method of control
and experimentation..Soldiers in desert
storm were expermineted on and many are
sick for life,strange compounds have been
found in the soldiers body related to the
vaccine...Research as much as possible and
enpower yourselfs with
knowledge....Stef....
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stef46
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Posted: 12-16-06 17:02pm
Haylick the man who had developed the
human dipoid cell strain w1-38 for
wistar....Haylick talking to
cyberski,"back in the fifties,the french
had tested one of their own polio
vaccines,in the congo area of africa."he
could provide no further details but this
sounded like the part of french equatorial
africa now known as congo
brazzaville..After a long search in the
keppel street libiary,i came across an
arcticle that described just such an
event.It documented an outbrerak of polio
that had occurred in a group of villages
near the town of mitzic(edwards fails to
mention that africans have a natural
immunity to polio and outbreaks may not
have been natural,these programs needed
guinea pigs before prescous could be
innoculated) in what was then french
equatorial africa,in 1957.Mitzic lies on
the main road some 250 miles south of
yaounde ,the capital of present day
camaroon.Between the months of july and
november ,ten cases of polio apparently
occurred in one of the nearby villages,and
another six in villages within a
thiry-five mile radius.Seven of the
sixteen cases were fatal.(this may not be
natural)so unexpected and virulent was
this epidemic that two french doctors,led
by l.J. Andre,a captain in the colonial
medical service based at the pasteur
institute satellite, at nearby
brazzaville,decided to vaccinate the local
population.Starting on november 1st 1957
,a total of 2,100 children of the
district,aged from 6 months to 15 years
old and 150 students from the college aged
11 to 18 were injected with 3 doses of the
vaccine at three week intervals.Although
participation was voluntary,there was an
acceptance rate of over 95%...(me).I feel
some questions arise here.How do africans
have outbreaks of polio since they are
immune?Who pays,they certainly dont?Are
these experimental vaccines?Are the
africans being used as guinea pigs to see
if the vaccine is safe for western
countries.Since polio is a disease of
overhygene why do we hear so much of it
being used in africa?Surely they have a
natural immunity to polio.We tend to judge
others by our own standards ,and edward
hooper was such a decent bloke he didnt
realize what some people will stoop
too.When it comes to money..(end)....
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-16-06 17:07pm
From as early as 1986,there had been a
series of reports of atypical hiv's,which
did not give normal readings on hiv-1 or
hiv-2assays,being detected in west central
africa.Some scientists began speaking of a
possible"hiv-3" from that region.;but it
was not until the early nineties that the
existence of a third strain of hiv was
confirmed..Although various genetic
characteristics indicated that the strain
belonged to the same branch of the family
tree that included hiv-1 and the
chimpanzee siv,the pattern and sequence of
cromosomes made it apparent that it was
the result of a separate transfer of an
siv from non human primates to
humans.Presently the new hiv variant came
to be known as hiv-1 group 0(for outlier
group),to distinguish it from the main
group of hiv-1 viruses,which was now
redesignated as hiv-1 group m (for main
group).Group 0 was found in roughly 6% of
the hiv-1-infected people in southern
cameroon,in about 3% of those from
gabon,and in a handful of french people
who had historical links with this part of
africa.The earliest recorded case of group
0 infection appeared to stem from the
start of the eighties,and involved a
frenchwoman who had apparently worked as a
barmaid in reims,a garrison town where
some of the recruits would have presumably
have served in cameroon or gabon.She had
one healthy child in 1972,but gave birth
to another child in 1980 who died of
typical neonatal aids the following
year.She herself died of confirmed aids in
1992,at the age of 41...However,the
resulting phylogenetic tree presented a
fresh mystery,for the group 0 isolates
proved to be slightly more distant than
the group m isolates to the chimpanzee siv
sequenced by martine peeters.Rthis was
despite the fact that the individual pan
trogodytes trogodytes that had provided
the peeters isolate,sivcpz-gab-1,had come
from the very same border region of gabon
and camaroon that appeared to represent
the epicenter of group 0.So although it
appeared likely that hiv-1group 0 like
group m,had evolved from a chimpanzee
siv,there was no evidence to suggest that
it had emerged through human contact with
local
chimpanzees..Interestingly,however,this
apparent epicenter of hiv-1 group 0
embraced the town of mitzic in northern
gambon,just 130 miles south of the
cameroonian border ,where dr andre had
vaccinated against polio in 1957.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-16-06 17:11pm
Geneva and w.H.O...When I told him that
one vaccine vial relevant to the congo
trials had apparently been located and
made available to the w.H.O (world health
organization) ,he said (david heymann) ,"i
thin k you can be pretty sure that if
there was this one vial left that there
was nothing inb it".At another point in
the conversation he said that,in any
case,the origin of aids was,certainly of
no interest today".He added that various
departments at the w.H.O had prepared a
joint statement on the opv/aids
controversy some time earlier..I later
obtained a copy of this statement,which
turned out to be an internal memorandum on
the "safety of oral polio vaccines",dated
may 8,1992,and addressed to the six
regional w.H.O directors.The paper was
intended to provide them with"information
which may be helpful...In answering
questions which may arise," and contained
the following sentence about the opv/aids
theory,underlined,in the first
paragraph:"this speculation is without
scientific basis"..After stating that "opv
is one of the safest vaccines known," it
went on to claim that"the polio vaccine
strains used by dr koprowski in central
africa...Are being tested by sensitive
techniques for any evidence od siv
contamination."..The lack of any reliable
information about this alleged testing
suggested that this statement was
incorrect when written in may 1992, and
that it was still incorrect eleven months
later.There again,if the claim was
correct,and c.H.A.T vaccine samples had
been tested for siv,then why have no
results been announced?..The memorandum
ended by giving four reasons why, even if
testing revealed that s.I.V sequences
were present in early vaccine
preparations,the implications for the
hypothesis,or for the safety of
o.P.V,would be virtually none.These were
that1]it is virtually impossible that
h.I.V could have evolved from hypothetical
contamination with s.I.V within the time
period postulated,given the genetic
differences between them and the
epidemiological data on the lenght of time
the major h.I.V subtypes have been in
existence.2]no known human virus is
closely related to s.I.V....3]experiments
at several laboratories...Indicate that
attempts to deliberately infect primary
monkey kidney cells with s.I.V under the
conditions used for the production of
o.P.V ..4]transmission of other
viruses,for example to animal handlers,is
well documented.Extensive testing of
animal handlers,for anti-bodies against
s.I.V has been negative,showing that this
particular virus passes only with great
difficultly from monkeys to
humans....End.....In fact the second and
fourth of these claims had both been
comprehensively disproved by several
detailed scientific papers published
between 1987 and 1992,while the third
ignored the fact that most o.P.V were
produced in cultures containing
lymphocytes and macrophages,the natural
host cells to s.I.V's and
h.I.V's.Furthermore the first claim was
highly contentious,and was to be put in
proper perspective by simon wain-hobson in
paris only a few weeks later....The
memorandum was in short,a defensive and
entirely inadequate response to the
opv/aids hypothesis,one that had been
clearly drafted in haste.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-16-06 17:21pm
Professor meinrad schar.I asked schar what
substrate koprowski had used to make his
vaccines before 1962,and he replied that
he was unsure,but that it was probably
rhesus monkey kidney.Then he added an
interesting comment.Joseph melnick,he
said,had discovered in 1960 that the
addition of magnesium chloride to polio
vaccine eliminated the threat of simian
virus number fourty,and had patented the
technique.Albert sabin's
vaccines,thenceforward,had always
incorporated magnesium chloride, but
koprowski's apparentlynever used the
salt,so prehaps he could have simian virus
number fourty in there,schar
hypothesized...I wondered whether there
could have been another interpretation of
this story-that koprowski could have been
using the kidneys of a simian other than
the rhesus macaque,one that was not known
to be susceptable to simian virus number
fourty.(intriguingly,a report published
years after the initial simian virus 40
scare,in 1967,including a section that
detailed the testing of sera from 85
chimpanzee resident in 3 u.S labs:not one
was found positive for simian virus
40.Another article published that same
year,however,reported the isolation of
seven new simian viruses from chimp
tissues,including two foamy viruses-or
retro-viruses-both of which were issolated
from the kidneys)
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 12-16-06 17:43pm
Professor schar seemed to feel my
hypothesis was viable,so I went on to
outline the opv/hiv theory to him.He
listenend carefully and then to my
suprise,commented:"if it were true that
aids was found in areas where the C.H.A.T
strain was used,then the theory could be
true".I pointed out that for central
africa at least,this appeared to be the
case.I asked wether his safety test would
show up a lentivirus,had one been present
in one of the vaccines,and after some
thought,he answered:"I'm sure we wouldent
have found a lentivirus,because of the
short observation time."when I asked if
chimpanzee kidneys could have been used as
the substrate for C.H.A.T,he replied,"yes
it could be"...At the end of our
conversation,I asked meinrad schar wheter
it was possible that lepine's vaccine had
ever been tried out in west africa."its
quite possible",he answered promptly,"and
if they ever had a bad experience,nothing
more would be heard about it"..If schar
was right,then it seemed that modern
medicine might also,inadvertently,have
sparked the sudden cataclysmic emergence
of hiv-2.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 02-23-07 18:08pm
There is no doubt that in the 1950ies the
us goverment were concerned with projected
population levels in africa in the coming
decades and the money it would cost the
american economy..The question is, what
did they do about it?..Did the special
cancer research program have a clique that
discovered the process of chimp
kidney-SIV-Child-mutation to HIV.?....If
so they only had to finance Wistar and
send them to the congo.The rest would
unfold ":naturaly"....stef........EH .
Stanley Plotkin..I recalled the strange
feeling I had had at the begining of the
interview,when Plotkin had been telling me
about his arrival at the Wistar Institute
in August 1957.I recalled that joseph
pagano had also spoken about working on
anthrax vaccines in his early days at the
Wistar..Anthrax like the Venezuelan equine
encephalitis virus Koprowski had stumbled
accross in rio,was one of the major
preoccupations of the u.s army chemical
corps,because of its potential as a
biological warfare agent.I decided to see
wether Plotkin and pagano had published
anything on the subject....What I found
was rather shocking.First I came accross
an article by Plotkin and others on an
epedemic of inhalation anthrax ,that,as
the title revealed,was"the first in the
twentieth century".Phillip Brachman ,the
lead author,and Plotkin were listed as
being from the Anthrax investigation
unit,CDC,Wistar Institute,Philidelphia,and
the work had been supported by a contract
with the US army chemical corps,based at
fort detrick.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 03-10-07 16:58pm
I have now finally finished the book
called "the river" by edward hooper.The
900 page behemoth.After reading this book,
one can have no doubts about the
origin.The only question that is not
certain, is wheter it was an accident or
not..Remember, we have powerful people
,that want population reduction.In america
a stone henge like stone has been
erected.It says upon its marble stone,500
million people on earth,no more.Living in
hand with nature..or words to those
effects.It would have cost many millions
to erect these stones.The person or
persons responsible, remains
anonymous....Here we have some insight
into the thinking of the powerful.They see
population rises as a threat to their
economy.,their envoroment..They also see
drug addicts and homosexuals as excess
population and tragically some of them
would actually target these people in a
human cull.As long as we have secret
government we are vunrebale to such
actions..The evidence here is
overwhelming..Before anyone had even heard
of aids we had a researcher saying," we
will develop a virus, the like we have
never seen before,it will attack the very
immune sytem itself".,we had a program
called the ,special virus cancer research
program.,that suddenly asked for the then
enormous sum of ten million dollars.They
discovered something big.This was just at
the time that the "accident" had
started...We have Wistar,the institute
that brought the oral polio vaccine to
africa..Wistar was an unused basement in a
college called the morgue..Why was it
suddenly funded by american government
dollars?..Koprowski,stole the vaccine from
his former employer,Lerdele..Why did they
not litigate??Were they intimidated?..Was
koprowski using the africans as guinea
pigs for a new vaccine or was he even
privy to the process itself.Remeber the
bio division in americas military is way
ahead of everyone else and they would have
been fully ware of siv,even in 1958 and
possibly its mutations...Koprowski
,incredibly kept no records of his
momentous vaccination of africa,.he kept
no records for a reason,to cover his
tracks.Which means he knew what was going
to happen in advance..I have personally
met elitists like this and they are
capable of these things....The
denial...The scientific community will not
admit what happenend.,for two
reasons..They think it will undermine
confidence in vaccine programs and they
think america will be somehow responsible
for the hiv victims...People will get over
the mistake made and be more confident in
the long run, when our scientists are
honest and own up to mistakes.As for
americas responsibility,it cant be proven
that it was inentional, so all we have,is
a naturlised pole, with no government
backing making a mistake.They will not be
held accountable for an honest mistake.If
however there was some malice involved
then they will never admit what
happenend... For these reasons they will
never admit the truth in this matter and
will systamaticly put out misleading
information...my motivation is ,that we
learn an important lesson,dont use animals
for experiments,dont do xeno
transplantaion,dont allow secret
government.When a mistake is made ,admit
the truth and learn the lesson ,then move
on..As we now stand every science journal
has been corrupted by this.Most scientist
that are involved in the cover up have
also become corrupted..When we, as a
people hide such secrets ,it moves our
governments closer to totaliterinism.Their
need to cover up the truth makes them more
secretive,stifles the media and they need
new laws to keep thing quite.In the name
of national security..What about global
security?Who takes care of that.?Who is
watching the big picture with
humanity?capitalism wont look after us,yet
has infiltrated every body that might.How
many people actually agree with human
culls,in secret the number may be higher
than we expect.
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stef46
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 03-11-07 15:08pm
If the cause of Aids is suppressed,will
another virus be used for population
control.?..What are the chances, that in
bio-warfare labs ,such viruses are being
spliced together?..Its a certainty..With
even the conservatives having to admit in
global warming,since they can see it with
their own eyes,we now have the unfortunate
circumstance, where population numbers
become a threat to national
security..American government has stated
that,"global warming is a threat to
,"national security"...That is
rediculous!...America causes more
pollution than the rest of the world
combined...So their statement is a
pre-requisite for war against up and
coming economys, in asia..This is so
predictable it needs to be
circumvented...Secondly the virus..The
decision will almost certainly be made
when climate change intesifies..What
safeguards are there??...Secret government
will act when the circumstances are
there,ie national security is perceived to
be threatenend......So AIDS is a threat to
national security and so is global
warming,.yet who caused both those
things?..The people that look after
national security are by far the biggest
threat to national security.