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Pandemics Are Never What They Seem

“There has long been a concern that the AIDS virus did not simply mutate but was transferred by a gain-of-function naturally from monkeys to humans. William Hamilton, the British biologist, became concerned that AIDS emerged from the trials of a polio vaccine in Africa. Hamilton, the evolutionary biologist, was one of the most distinguished scientists in the world. During the 1990s, Hamilton began to investigate the controversial argument that the origin of HIV was in an oral polio vaccine trial conducted by Hilary Koprowski in Africa. The idea that Hamilton was correct, well, nobody wanted to admit that they had used Africans as experimental guinea pigs.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/warning-pandemics-are-never-what-they-seem/