This site documents links between the polio vaccine and AIDS.
The Polio Vaccine and AIDS:
- Essex, M., et al. "The origin of the AIDS virus." Scientific American, 1988; 259:64-71.
- Karpas, A. "Origin and Spread of AIDS." Nature, 1990; 348:578.
- Kyle, Walter S. "Simian retroviruses, poliovaccine, and origin of AIDS." Lancet, 1992; 339:600-601.
- Elswood, B.F. and Stricker, R.B. "Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS." Medical Hypothesis, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 347-354.
- Myers, G., et al. "The emergence of simian/human immunodeficiency viruses." AIDS Res Human Retro 1992: 8:373-86.
- Workshop on Simian Virus-40 (SV-40): A Possible Human Polyomavirus. (National Vaccine Information Center, January 27-28, 1997.) www.909shot.com/polio197.htm (Includes a summary of evidence presented at the Eighth Annual Houston Conference on AIDS.)
- Martin, Brian. "Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS: The career of a threatening idea." Townsend Letter for Doctors (January 1994), pp. 97-100.
- Curtis, Tom. "Did a polio vaccine experiment unleash AIDS in Africa?" The Washington Post (April 5, 1992), pp. C3+.
- World Health Organization. "T-lymphotropic retroviruses of nonhuman primates." WHO informal meeting. Weekly Epidemiology Records, 1985; 30:269-70.
- Huet, T., et al. "Genetic organization of a chimpanzee lentivirus related to HIV-1." Nature 1990; 345:356-359.
- Desrosiers, R.C. "HIV-1 origins: A finger on the missing link." Nature 1990; 345:288-89.
- Sabin, A.B. "Properties and behavior of orally administered attenuated poliovirus vaccine." Journal of the American Medical Association 1957; 164: 1216-23.
- Plotkin, S.A., Koprowski, H., et al. "Clinical trials in infants of orally administered poliomyelitis viruses." Pediatrics 1959; 23:1041-62.
- Barin, F., et al. "Serological evidence for virus related to simian T-lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa." Lancet 1985; ii:1387-1389.
- Hirsch, V.M., et al. "Simian immunodeficiency virus infection of macaques: End-stage disease is characterized by widespread distribution of proviral DNA in tissues." Journal of Infectious Disease 1991; 163:976-988.
- Bohannon, R.C., et al. "Isolation of a Type D retrovirus from B-cell lymphomas of a patient with AIDS." Journal of Virology 1991; 65(11):5663-72.
- Khabbaz, R.F., et al. "Simian immunodeficiency virus needlestick accident in a laboratory worker." Lancet 1992; 340:271-73.
- Gao, F., et al. "Human infection by genetically diverse SIVsm-related HIV-2 in West Africa." Nature 1992; 358:495-99.
- Giunta S., et al. "The primate trade and the origin of AIDS viruses." Nature 1987; 329:22.
- Seale, J. "Crossing the species barrier -- viruses and the origins of AIDS in perspective." J R Soc Med 1989; 82:519-23.
- Lecatsas G. "Origin of AIDS." Nature 1991; 351:179.
- Koprowski, H. "Historical aspects of the development of live virus vaccine in poliomyelitis." British Medical Journal 1960; ii:85-91.
- Lebrun, A., et al. "Vaccination with the CHAT strain of Type 1 attenuated poliomyelitis virus in Leopoldville, Belgian Congo." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1960; 22:203-213.
- Sabin, A.B. "Present position of immunization against poliomyelitis with live virus vaccines." British Medical Journal 1959; i:663-680.
- Mahmias, A.J., et al. "Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959." Lancet 1986; i:1279-80.
- Huminer, D., et al. "AIDS in the pre-AIDS era." Rev Infect Dis 1987; 9:1102-08.
- Corbitt, G., et al. "HIV infection in Manchester, 1959." Lancet 1990; ii:51.
- Cohen, J. "Debate on AIDS origin: Rolling Stone weighs in -- Controversial article angers vaccine experts by claiming AIDS could have been spread by polio vaccines in Africa." Science (March 1992), p. 1505. [Article]
- Sonnet, J., et al. "Early AIDS cases originating from Zaire and Burtundi (1962-1976)." Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Disease 1987; 19:511-17.
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