The Origine of HIV-Aids: truths, lies and deaths- Africa in the eyes of global financial players
Two weeks ago, we published a critical article from Prof. Brian Martin, a scientist who is actually targeted by several critics. In his paper, Prof. Brian Martin highlights some scientific hypothesis which might be interesting to any researcher willing to understand the origin of the disease.
Few days after the publication of his article, we also published a BBC documentary film dealing with the spread of HIV-Aids virus in central Africa. In this documentary film, the hypothesis of the antipolio vaccination campaign of the 1960s in central Africa as the main cause of the spread of HIV-Aids virus in the continent is clearly mentioned.
It is surprising that a report of the British newspaper “The Independent” points hunters as the key agent in the proliferation of the virus. The report is from the city of Yokadouma in deep equatorial rain forest of Cameroon (central Africa). The Journalist clearly indicated that hunters may cause the spread of the virus through the commercialisation of Chimpanzees’ meat for domestic feeding. However, it is obvious that chimpanzees’ hunting is a practice which has been carried in the region for centuries. But the spread of HIV-Aids virus is a relatively recent phenomenon in the region. The report of “The Independent” makes no indication of all the scientific debates about the hypothesis of the experimental antipolio mass vaccination campaigns organised in central Africa between 1957 and 1960, although several online resources are actually available. Wikipedia for instance provides some key information on the topic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_hypothesis#cite_note-cohen1-30).
The position of Africa & Science is clear on this issue: HIV-aids virus could be spread through chimpanzees’ meat consumption. But it could also be caused by an accident occurred during the development of the antipolio vaccine as many critical reports actually mention. We consider any paper or press article which does not pay attention to this aspect of the problem as unbalance and lacking fairness. The BBC documentary film is evocative enough to attract the attention of any informed journalist researching on HIV-aids.
For a better understanding of the problem, we hereby once again publish the BBC documentary film and also the press article published by “The Independent”.
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Out of Africa: How HIV was born
Aids, the worst pandemic of modern times which has claimed over 30 million lives, is thought to have begun in the rainforest of west central Africa as a result of the bush meat trade.
For decades, perhaps centuries, wild chimpanzees carrying the Simian Deficiency Virus (SIV) have come into contact with humans who have caught and eaten them. SIV is genetically similar to HIV and, occasionally, when a chimp scratched or bit a hunter, the virus will have been passed on and may have mutated into HIV. In the distant past, when communications were poor, outbreaks of HIV would not have spread beyond the forest. But in the latter part of the last century, as the commercial exploitation of Africa gathered pace, the opportunities for viral spread increased.
Today, the scale of the slaughter is immense. The Washington-based Bush Meat Crisis Task Force estimates that up to five million tons of wild animals are being « harvested » in the Congo Basin every year – the equivalent of 10 million cattle. The trade was initially driven by hunger – it was a cheap source of food – but has burgeoned with increased logging of the forests and growing demand.
Now, it is international, extending the threat beyond the continent’s boundaries. Scientists have warned that Britain is at risk from an outbreak caused by the lethal Ebola or Marburg viruses contained in illegal imports of bush meat from Africa.
The size of the imports is unknown, but one 2010 study estimated that five tons of the meat per week were being smuggled in personal baggage via Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France. Gorilla and chimpanzee meat is said to be on offer to African communities in Hackney and Brixton at hundreds of pounds per kilogram.
Source : Jeremy Laurance, «African monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV», The Independent, 25 May 2012, available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/african-monkey-meat-that-could-be-behind-the-next-hiv-7786152.html, 26 May 2012
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The Origine of Aids: greed, honour, Chimpazees and the Truth
Science becomes horrible when scientists lay more importance to their financial interests than the scientific truth. It is astonishing to realise that the scientific community might have passively contributed to the extermination of mankind through AIDS. The following documentary film highlights a hypothesis which has for several years (voluntarily) been ignored by political leaders and scientists: the possible connection between the antipolio vaccine’s development and the propagation of HIV-AIDS in Africa.
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