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May 20, 2002
U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Vaccine Theory on AIDS Upset"
Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) (05/20/02) P. A9
Pasteur Institute research supports vaccine manufacturers' assertion that chimpanzee kidneys were never used in the production of vaccines. The previously unaccounted for DNA fragments in an old vial of vaccine were found to be nuclear mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Asian macaque. The finding undermines the assertion that AIDS was born from contaminated polio vaccine, because macaques cannot carry simian immunodeficiency virus, the immediate ancestor to HIV.
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