On the subject of whether the experimental hepatitis B vaccine, grown on green monkey's kidneys and administered to thousands of gay men between 1979 and 1981, had any relationship to the so-called AIDS outbreak of the 1980s and early 1990s, precious little has been written. The following excerpt was published in Johns Hopkins University's American Journal of Epidemiology¹ Vol. 130, No. 6: 1167-1175 (1989).

"Between 1978 and 1980, 359 hepatitis B seronegative homosexual and bisexual men were recruited from the San Francisco municipal sexually transmitted disease clinic for hepatitis B vaccine trials. Of the 359 participants, 320 (89%) consented to have their stored blood samples tested for human immunodeficiency virus antibodies. The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection in these 320 vaccine trial participants rose from 0.3% in 1978 to 50.9% in 1988. The annual incidence of human immunodeficiency virus infection showed that seroconversion peaked in 1980-1982, dropped significantly in 1983, and has remained low..."

This following excerpt was published in the CDC MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly). Note the error in the language: "...if (AIDS) virus were present, it would be killed by the manufacturing process."

"HB vaccine acceptance in the United States has been seriously hindered by the fear of possible AIDS transmission from the vaccine. The recent identification of AIDS' etiologic agent has made possible direct laboratory measurement of virus inactivation, nucleic acid presence, and serologic evidence of infection. These studies were unable to detect the AIDS virus' viral protein or nucleic acid in the purified vaccine product and clearly indicate that if virus were present, it would be killed by the manufacturing procedures. In addition, epidemiologic monitoring of AIDS cases and high-risk groups confirms the lack of AIDS transmission by HB vaccine. This information should remove a major impediment to vaccine use."

Since viruses are not living, viable, independent organisms, they cannot be killed. What is most interesting is how earnest the efforts were by the CDC to deflect attention away from the experimental vaccine, which was no longer in use for mainstream America when the MMWR letter was published.

Yet, a significant cohort of 700,000 gay men were already infected with an active, viral agent that was the experimental formulation of the hepatitis B 'vaccine,' grown on green monkey kidneys. They needed and desperately wanted the world to believe these men were "at risk" for AIDS because they were homosexual, rather than because they were victims of a massive scale clinical trial gone awry. The MMWR letter cleverly avoided discussion of the harmful initial formulation, while the private Johns Hopkins study addressed it directly.

Ironically, as 59% of the 320 vaccine subjects evaluated in the Johns Hopkins study were said to have seroconverted by 1988, there is a stronger correlation between the experimental hepatitis B vaccine and HIV than there is between HIV and AIDS, given only a 37% HIV infection rate in Gallo's AIDS patient sera.

The real question has never been answered. What causes AIDS? Was the initial wave of AIDS caused by a viral agent introduced to gay men in the experimental formulation of the hepatitis B vaccine, that may or may not have been HIV ? Did HIV become less virulent after 1984 as the human biology adapted? Or was there another co-factor at play, an as yet unknown?

What is clear is that 1980s American AIDS (KS, PCP pneumonia) is not the same as present day American AIDS. Most deaths attributed to modern Ameriacn AIDS are intestinal parasites like cryptosporidim, or HAART induced liver or heart failure. African AIDS has always been the usual tropical disease profile, malaria, TB, intestinal parasites. How ever many times UNAIDS uses the prefix "HIV-related," the fact is those diseases ravaged human populations, including early century United States, before sanitation and clean water systems were widely implemented.

Could the 1979-1981 forumlation of the hepatitis B vaccine be a missing link to the apocryphal mysteries of AIDS ? Was early HIV an artifact of the hepatits B vaccine, and initial first-contacts of the experimental vaccine recipients? Did HIV's virulence decrease as human physiolgy adapted?

Could experimental vaccines, including smallpox, and polio, administered to millions in Africa over decades, be a co-factor in susceptiblity to tropical diseases, now according to UNAIDS and other organizations, all HIV-related?

Is HIV altogether a smokescreen for large-scale laboratory mistakes? Is HIV an engine of medical colonialism and a locus of the ersatz charity with which the West victimizes Africa by shipping toxic drugs rather than helping to build water filtration systems and implement a modern sanitation infrastructure?

The answers will only be revealed if the facts are studied in an unemotional, uncensored, and scientific manner.

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