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Release: No.00-EV/15; Date Mailed: April 12, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elaine Zacky—208/265-2575; 800/336-9266
Scientific Journal Theorizes Man-Made Origin
of HIV/AIDS
London—A new twist on the
theory that vaccines may have triggered the AIDS pandemic is advanced
in the May 2001 issue of the esteemed scientific journal of Medical
Hypothesis by an independent investigator and author of a bestselling
book on the subject, Dr. Leonard Horowitz. Last year, scientists
began to examine the possibility that polio vaccine research may
have contributed to the initial African outbreak. The new theory
supposes that HIV/AIDS was triggered hepatitis B (HB) vaccine given
to gay men in New York City and Blacks in central Africa during
the mid-1970s among persons having received suspected polio vaccines
a decade earlier.
Dr. Horowitz, who holds a post-doctoral degree
in public health from Harvard, presented his preliminary findings
at the XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver in 1996.
his f degree. graduate the American Public Health Association meeting
this week, is currently in press in the peer-reviewed journal of
Medical Hypothesis, and the subject of a forthcoming BBC special.
His pronouncement lends credence to widespread suspicions among
minority populations, and some African leaders, regarding a man-made
origin of HIV—the virus linked to AIDS.
Based on a three year study of the pandemic’s
origin, Dr. Horowitz determined that the risky pilot vaccine trials
involved growing HB viruses in African chimpanzees commonly known
to be contaminated with retroviruses related to HIV. His findings
elucidate for the first time how the chimpanzee AIDS virus (SIVcpz),
closely related to HIV, suddenly jumped species to humans. Four
lots of HB vaccine containing 200,000 human doses, believed to be
contaminated with gene sequences common to HIV/SIVcpz, were prepared
by passing live HB viruses, grown in chimpanzees, to polio vaccine
recipients previously exposed to monkey cancer viruses already suspected
of playing a role in initiating AIDS. The final preparations were
injected into gay men in New York City and Blacks in Central Africa
between 1974 and 1975. According to several investigators, this
may best explain how and why there was a sudden simultaneous outbreak
of at least four major HIV strains, on two far removed continents,
in two demographically distinct populations, in the late 1970s,
corresponding to the only complete virus discoveries.
These disclosures come at a time of heightened
concern regarding the higher risks posed by HIV/AIDS to minority
groups and U.S. national security. On April 29, 2000, the CIA issued
a report declaring that global HIV/AIDS was a U.S. “national
security threat,” prompting President Clinton to place all
of AIDS science, and the agencies conducting it, under CIA oversight.
These actions closely followed the highly publicized decision of
South African President Thabo Mbeki to review “dissident”
scientific views concerning AIDS, its origin, and treatment. In
recent weeks Mr. Mbeki has charged that AIDS is rooted in racism.
His views are shared by many African leaders, most vocally, Kenyan
President Arap Moi and his Minister of State, Major Madoka, who
recently stated that HIV/AIDS “did not originate in Africa.”
Dr. Horowitz’s full thesis, published in
Emerging
Viruses: AIDS & Ebola—Nature, Accident or Intentional?
(Tetrahedron Press, 1998; 1-888-508-4787), gained him the 1999 “Author
of the Year Award” from the World Natural Health Organization.
His work has gained increasing respect from members of congress
and the medical scientific communities, many of whom are calling
for a reevaluation of AIDS’s origin with respect to vaccines.
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS and OTHERS SEEKING
MORE DETAILS: For review copies of Dr. Horowitz’s
books, please call Jackie Lindenbach at 1-800-336-9266. Dr. Horowitz
is currently living in Hawaii, while directing development of the
Steam Vent Inn & Health Retreat.
(See: www.steamventinn.com.)
For more information on Dr. Horowitz AIDS origin theory link to:
http://www.originofAIDS.com
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