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June 2000 Cover
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Three laboratories in the United States and Europe will start testing soon samples of an experimental polio vaccine tested in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s to determine if it was accidentally made with chimpanzee
tissues that could have contained the ancestor of HIV. The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia made the experimental vaccine and has kept drops of it frozen since 1957. The tests follow the publication of a theory in Edward
Hooper's book The River that an oral polio vaccine in the Congo started the spread of HIV to humans; however, scientists do not expect conclusive evidence proving or disproving the theory.
Editor's Note: from the New York Times
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