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Devastated by outbreaks of paralytic polio, the people of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) had every reason to be thankful in 1957, when they became the first large group to receive an experimental polio vaccine. Ironically, the quest for deliverance from this ancient scourge may have made them unwitting participants...
The oral vaccine, developed by Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, was made from weakened polio viruses grown in a culture of monkey kidney cells. Several monkey viruses have been known to contaminate such cultures, though vaccine makers now take pains to weed them out. Extrapolating from a...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks...
Currently, it is estimated that more than one million Americans are infected with the virus causing AIDS, which has been concluded to be inevitable fatal. Therefore, within the next two decades, there will be well over a million deaths in America from AIDS, unless a successful vaccine is developed. Furthermore...
Until there is a vaccine or a cure, responsibility for AIDS in America will have to remain where it is now: with the people in danger of getting and spreading it. For the individual considering a casual sexual encounter, wearing a condom -- or abstaining altogether -- can mean the difference between...