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Analysis of oral polio vaccine CHAT stocks

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Research into oral polio vaccines, which were allegedly linked to the origin of AIDS, is discussed. A molecular analysis of CHAT polio vaccine stocks showed that the vaccines were prepared from macaque cells, not chimpanzee cells, and contained no HIV or simian immunodeficiency virus sequences.

Author: Berry, N., Davis, C., Jenkins, A., Wood, D., Minor, P., Schild, G., Bottiger, M., Holmes, H., Almond, N.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001

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Polio vaccine samples not linked to AIDS

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Research into whether oral polio vaccine could have been the cause of HIV in humans is discussed. An analysis of frozen samples of the suspect vaccine, CHAT pool 13, suggests there is no evidence to back the HIV theory.

Author: Kwok, Shirley, Christopherson, Cindy, Blancou, Philippe, Vartanian, Jean-Pierre, Chenciner, Nicole, Basilico, Claudio, Wain-Hobson, Simon
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001

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Polio vaccines exonerated

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New studies disprove the theory put forward by Edward Hooper that the HIV virus originated in a batch of live oral polio vaccine which was contaminated with a chimpanzee virus. The new studies are detailed.

Author: Weiss, Robin A.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001

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Subjects list: Research, Causes of, HIV (Viruses), HIV, Poliomyelitis vaccine, Poliovirus vaccines
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