OPV AIDS Hypothesis
The oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis argues that the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee tissue cultures and then administered to up to one million Africans between 1957 and 1960 in experimental mass vaccination campaigns.
Data from molecular biology and phylogenetic studies contradict the OPV AIDS hypothesis; consequently, scientific consensus regards the hypothesis as disproven. The journal Nature has described the hypothesis as "refuted".
Read more about OPV AIDS Hypothesis: Background: Polio Vaccines, Development of Hypothesis, Scientific Investigation, Current Oral Polio-vaccine Campaign in Africa
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