Postscript relating to new allegations made by Edward Hooper at The Royal Society Discussion Meeting on 11 September 2000.
At The Royal Society Discussion Meeting, Origins of HIV and the AIDS epidemic, which this issue records, Edward Hooper added two new 'smoking guns' to the accusations published previously in The river. These were proposed as conclusive evidence for the hypothesis that simian immunodeficiency virus-contaminated CHAT polio vaccine caused the HIV-1 group M epidemic. We have investigated the facts in relation to these 'smoking guns'.
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University of Pennsylvania, Wistar Institute, 4650 Wismer Road, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA. stanley.plotkin@aventis.com
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D000818:Animals; D002063:Burundi; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005104:Expert Testimony; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology* / Q000821:virology; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000821:virology*; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012432:Rwanda; D015302:Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / Q000502:physiology; D014611:Vaccination / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
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