Expedition To The Congo
During the 1990s Hamilton became increasingly interested in the controversial argument that the origin of HIV lay in oral polio vaccines trials conducted by Hilary Koprowski in Africa during the 1950s. Letters by Hamilton on the topic to the major peer-reviewed journals were rejected. To look for indirect evidence of the OPV hypothesis by assessing natural levels of SIV in primates, in early 2000 he and two others ventured on a field trip to the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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