L'origine del Male:English/Prologue

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Prologue

SV40.

SV40 is a monkey virus.

“V” for virus, “S” for simian, “of monkeys”, “40” because in 1960 when it was discovered, it was the 40th monkey virus to be identified.

Certain scientists say it is cancerous – that it causes cancer. Laboratory tests have confirmed that it causes cancer in hamsters. But what does that have to do with us? I mean – poor monkeys, poor hamsters. But for us humans what difference does it make if SV40 is cancerous or not?

Well it should make a difference considering that the major portion of the millions of polio vaccines produced between 1954 and 1963 were contaminated with it. So in fact it’s important to know whether SV40 is cancerous or not.

But let’s talk about AIDS because that’s what this presentation is about. AIDS is an illness caused by HIV. HIV is also a monkey virus (or at least it started out as one). Could it be that HIV, like SV40, was passed from monkeys to humans through polio vaccines?

But one thing at a time.