title: Forensic epidemiology. Vaccine theory of AIDS origins disputed at Royal Society.
abstract: At center stage at a meeting on the origin of the AIDS epidemic, held here this week at the Royal Society, was a controversial theory that a contaminated polio vaccine tested in Africa more than 40 years ago sparked the epidemic. The theory took a hit when researchers revealed that tests of old samples of the vaccine provided no supporting evidence, and the main proponent of the theory, British writer Edward Hooper, endured a verbal battering himself from several prominent scientists. But Hooper, unbowed, got in plenty of jabs of his own.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004340:Drug Contamination; D006678:HIV / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000235:genetics; D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D011054:Poliovirus Vaccine, Inactivated