{"id":884,"date":"2004-04-27T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"origin-of-disease-no-link-found-between-aids-and-polio-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"origin of disease: no link found between AIDS and polio vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An international team of researchers refutes the  controversial theory that the AIDS virus, HIV-1, jumped into humans from  contaminated polio vaccines. Proponents of the theory stated that a  group of chimpanzees from the Kisangani region in the Democratic  Republic of Congo were infected with a monkey form of the  immunodeficiency virus. These infected chimpanzees&#8217; tissues were then  allegedly used to prepare oral polio vaccines given to humans &#8212; thereby  allowing the virus to cross over into people. Michael Worobey of the  University of Arizona and his colleagues argue in the April 22 <em>Nature,<\/em> however, that the theory can&#8217;t be true. His team tested wild chimps from  the same area and found that while the virus is indeed prevalent among  the animals, molecular analysis showed it to be so different from all  strains of HIV-1 that it provides &#8220;direct evidence that these  chimpanzees were not the source of the human AIDS pandemic.&#8221; Worries  about the safety of the vaccine is hampering the global eradication of  polio. The authors hope that their findings will finally lay the theory  &#8212; and the fears it inspires &#8212; to rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/27\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers refutes the controversial theory that the AIDS virus, HIV-1, jumped into humans from contaminated polio vaccines. Proponents of the theory stated that a group of chimpanzees from the Kisangani region in the Democratic Republic of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}