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More information on polio vaccine litigation and SV40 __ cornerstone of paediatric health in the United States. contamination can be found at www.sv40cancer.com. Dr Hilleman then turned his attention to the For anyone who still thinks that vaccine-makers and development of the hepatitis B vaccine. A series of government health officials are always your friends, | | experimental vaccine trials using gay men as guinea would highly recommend The Virus and the Vaccine: The pigs took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1978— True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated and the first cases of AIDS were reported there a few Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed (2004), by — months after the injections began. Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher. The book In the video segment Merck Chief Brings HIV/AIDS to explores the history of the polio vaccine, the America, Hilleman is heard speaking with colleagues. He contamination problems with SV40, the ensuing declares: "I brought African greens [monkeys] in. | vaccine-related cancer problems and the government's _ didn't know we were importing AIDS virus at the time cover-up of the problem. [i.e., between 1970 and 1974]." His colleagues are heard Few people realise how dangerous vaccines can be laughing. A male voice says: "It was you who and how complicated the process of vaccine introduced AIDS virus in the country.". And a woman's manufacture really is, particularly voice giggles: "Now we know." when vaccines are made on living This stunning interview, conducted animal or human cells. by Dr Edward Shorter for WGBH Contamination with bacteria, public television and Blackwell mycoplasma and viruses and their As is often the fate Science, was cut from the elimination from the final product are documentary The Health Century due to constant problems during the of whistleblowers, lability issues no doubt it would development process. There are also ave reflected poorly on Merck, whic suspicions that laboratory media Walter Nelson- developed the vaccine that was used to feed cell cultures can be a Rees was driven injected into gay men. We are source of contamination. For further f hi | b b indebted to Leonard G. Horowitz, details on the dangers of vaccines, out of his la y DMD, one of a handful of healt vee my article Ave Naccines Causing powerful members professionals Who Is a whistleblower ore Diseases an ey Are . oe: on man-made and vaccine Curing?", freely available on the of the scientific issues, for uncovering and freely Internet. establishment, distributing this video segment. As is often the fate of undoubtedly whistleblowers, Walter Nelson- angered by the Rees was driven out of his lab by t . powerful members of the disruption to cancer research... The vaccine connection to the origin of the AIDS epidemic In my admittedly controversial view, HIV/AIDS is a man-made disease that was initially seeded exclusively into the US gay community via contaminated experimental hepatitis B vaccine programs conducted in the late 1970s. The details and evidence Edward Hooper wrote a massive of the close relationship between tome called The River, in which he the vaccine and the outbreak of the first AIDS cases in theorises that polio vaccines grown on primate tissue 1979 are explored in my books AIDS and the Doctors of | could have been contaminated with monkey viruses, Death and Queer Blood. One can easily Google "man- _ thus giving rise to the outbreak of AIDS in Africa. This made AIDS" for numerous Internet articles on this taboo theory was uniformly rejected by scientists who subject. attended the September 2000 “Origin of AIDS" Since the publication of these books, a video has conference in London. Hooper continues to allege that surfaced on youtube.com featuring Maurice Hilleman, there's a conspiracy to silence all aspects of his PhD, one of the world's leading vaccine experts. He — hypothesis. became famous at Merck pharmaceutical company for In the early part of 2000, Nelson-Rees, who was openly improving the Salk polio vaccine and for insisting that —_ gay, took an avid interest in Hooper's extensive AIDS macaque kidney cells not be used to produce the vaccine research. Along with Hooper, he spoke at the London because they were known to cause cancer in hamsters. conference where the polio vaccine connection to AIDS His crowning achievement came in 1971 when he _ was rejected. Although retired from science, Nelson- developed the MMR vaccine, the universally used Rees was still highly respected and was allowed to measles, mumps and rubella vaccine that is the _ present his views. scientific establishment, undoubtedly angered by the disruption to cancer research and all the money lost because of contaminating HeLa cells. In 1999, British journalist out of his lab by powerful members establishment, undoubtedly angered by the disruption to 28 * NEXUS APRIL - MAY 2010 As is often the fate of whistleblowers, Walter Nelson- | Rees was driven of the scientific cancer research... www.nexusmagazine.com