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Was HIV created in a lab?

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my friend is a total conspiracy theorist and she thinks that HIV was created in a lab by the government by accident, she also thinks that there was a dude that created a cure for it but the government hunted him down and killed him because of population control? she's wrong right?

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  1. Raelynn,

    To answer your second HIV related question, would take a long time. permit me, therefore, to condense my answer and leave a link at the bottom which may prove interesting. Your friend is partly right, but wrong with regard to the "creator" of a cure being hunted and killed!

    Exerpt from - Prospect (UK), June 2000, pp. 31-35; reprinted as "The true origin of AIDS" in Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), 7-13 July 2000, pp. 22-23, 31.

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    Most scientists believe that Aids was "naturally" transferred from primates to human beings via a hunter who ate a chimpanzee. But a competing theory claims that Aids was caused in the 1950s when thousands of Africans were given a live polio vaccine derived from chimp kidneys. The stakes are getting higher.

    Live vaccines are infectious viruses which have been rendered comparatively harmless. According to Hooper, a particular type of live polio vaccine called Chat may have been grown in the 1950s in cells derived from chimpanzee kidneys. Chimpanzees are the probable animal source of the Aids virus; live vaccines could have been contaminated if an infected animal was used. Chat was tested on more than 1m Africans in 1957-60, in the very areas where Aids subsequently became epidemic for the first time. Two other, less serious forms of Aids developed in parts of west Africa at about the same time, each epidemic closely associated with an area in which similar live polio vaccines may have been tested.

    First, chimpanzee kidney tissues will prove to have been used to grow Chat polio vaccine.

    Second, those kidneys and the resulting vaccine will sometimes prove to have been contaminated with the chimpanzee SIV virus, simian Aids.

    Third, the chimpanzee subspecies with the SIV closest to the main Aids virus (HIV-1, group M) will prove to be either the eastern subspecies of the common chimp or the bonobo. (Both kinds were kept at the camp in the Congo where the kidneys were taken.)

    Fourth, no Aids or HIV case will prove to predate the vaccine trials.

    Fifth, the first cases of HIV-1, group M, will prove to coincide in time and place with Chat vaccine trials in Congo and Burundi.

    Sixth, the lesser outbreaks of HIV-1, caused by groups O and N, will prove to coincide with French vaccine trials in Gabon and Cameroon.

    Finally, the epidemic of the less virulent HIV-2 will prove to be concentrated mostly in those parts of Guinea-Bissau where Portuguese vaccinations occurred in the 1960s.

    Hooper's opponents argue that knowing where Aids originated is irrelevant to stopping its progress today. It makes no difference to the fight against Aids whether it was an accident or an act of God. Indeed, by discrediting vaccination, the Hooper argument might actually make the task of fighting Aids more difficult, should an Aids vaccine ever be developed. Hooper retorts that the truth matters.

    http://www.aidsorigins.com/

    royalsoc/rs_pdfs/weiss-

    leeuwenhoek.pdf

    Hope this helps

    matador 89


  2. No.  She's wrong.

  3. Most likely she is right. No one can really know for sure, but it did just sort of appear out of nowhere. It may have even been created on purpose. Some believe to irradicate minority groups suchs as blacks or homosexuals. Pharmaceutical companies make a crapload of money on AIDs drugs, so if someone found a cure that the companies couldn't profit from-- they would certainly be killed.

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