The Origins of AIDS
While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the disease originated, and how the first cases spread. Two filmmakers explore a controversial theory about the beginnings of the disease.
In the 1950s, American and Belgian missionaries in the Belgian colonies of the Congo widely distributed polio vaccine to a million children in a bid to wipe out the crippling disease; however, evidence now suggests that Dr. Koprowski’s oral vaccine may have been tainted, and that the first instances of the disease may be linked to these inoculations.
Using interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab procedures, and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.
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Good doc. Not completely unbiased, but it’s better than those AIDS denialist docs.
Thanks for uploading this doc, Vlatko. It prompted me to do more research as the where HIV-AIDS originated from. Keep the “docs” coming, buddy!
Not a problem @johnphilippines. Thanks.
There are Aids denial docs Tim? Do you mean those docs claiming that Aids was invented and released on purpose or there are people actually believe Aids doesnt exist.
(BTW on a lighter note – Simon Cowell spotted at 12.30)
Yavanna: I mean the ones that claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS.
It is Possible that HIV does not cause AIDS
Anything is possible in the wonderful world of magic.
So it wasn’t a governmental conspiracy it was lack of safety controls over vacination production. I always wondered where these rumors stemmed from.
please watch RUN FROM THE CURE the RICK SIMPSON STORY.
I was incredulous until I saw this documentary, but I really believe they have it right here. It did come from Chimps originally, and it was spead by accident en mass by accident via polio shots made from chimps. What a tragic event in our sordid history of this diease and cover ups.
Tim,
Is it not within the realm of possiblity that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS? Isn’t scientific knowledge always subject to falsification or revision?
Your certainty is puzzling.
Yes Jerry, anything is possible, but the evidence points to HIV as the cause of AIDS. This debate has been going on for years, and the majority of scientists are convinced that HIV does indeed cause AIDS. All other theories have been debunked. I do not know what about this is puzzling to you.
All the info I can find says that HIV strains are descendants of SIV, so they're similar, but not identical. I've also read that SIV strains are not always harmful to their native hosts, but when transferred to a different species of primate, they can develop simian AIDS. So HIV and SIV do have a lot in common, but they refer to different retroviruses.
Tim: Do you know if the SIV in the chimps and HIV in humans genetically identical? It's not entirely clear in this documentary if they are identical. Perhaps I missed it. There's no doubt they were using chimps for the vaccines.
Dundahead: “It is Possible that HIV does not cause AIDS”;
Tim: “…but they refer to different retroviruses”;
charles b: “it’s not entirely clear [...] if they are identical”.
of course SIV and HIV are not virtually the same viruses. that’s why they’ve been given different, non-synonymous names. rather HIV-1 derived from SIV, starting out zoonotic, by cross-species adaptation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9989410.
SIV and HIV belong to the Genus of lentiviruses of group VI single-strand RNA retroviruses, acc. to baltimore classification. http://phene.cpmc.columbia.edu/MCM8.pdf
HIV is the cause for AIDS! period. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14667787
it has been observed in vivo and pathogenesis can be reproduced in the lab under pathophysiological conditions.
there is NO debate anymore cos the evidence is clear (anyone reminded of that ****** anti-gobal warming charade?).
SIVcpz, which is the viral origin of HIV-1, and SIVsmm induce simian AIDS in chimpanzees and macaques, respectively. again, verified by science.
finally, this documentary is hogshit (no offense to ya, vlatko! i know you’re just providing a free platform for information).
the oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis has been disproven almost 2 decades ago! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15103367.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10877695.
and it is a disgrace to keep this ill-belief still alive and weaken the current polio vaccine campaign. radical muslims to this day refer to the OPV AIDS hypothesis to deny their people in africa and the indian subcontinent vaccination against such a terrible disease.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388657
as a consequence a nearly extinct disease like polio is on the march again. bravo.
Keep up the good work.i absolutly love your docu/film site.thank you so much for this brilliant site. lol ***
They said that a certain strain of Polio Vaxine was prepared in bad conditions and “might” have been the reason another virus was in the vaxine.
This does NOT mean all polio vaxines contain AIDS HIV. Polio vaxines are a blessing to the health of our children.
I was vaxined for polio as an infant here in europe and of course do not have AIDS HIV from it. (at all actually)
But the documentary was very strict in not being absolute in this theory. You must agree though that this issue stinks like a mess up. They abused the native population for the sake of another. What should shock us is this disgusting racism displayed. Did you see they vaxined the poor people in this film with THE SAME NEEDLE? You can say what you wish, I find this disrespectful and dangerous.
this guy edward done his job well
ChocolateStarfish: “HIV is the cause for AIDS! period. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14667787
it has been observed in vivo and pathogenesis can be reproduced in the lab under pathophysiological conditions.
there is NO debate anymore cos the evidence is clear (anyone reminded of that ****** anti-gobal warming charade?).”
AIDS is caused by the HIV; No debate on that.
The question is, how was it first introduced into existence? Because we cannot trace its existence prior to the recent outbreak which emerged simultaneously in Africa and America in the late 1970s.
Especially the HIV which can be artificially constructed in the lab and has no historical existence prior to recent years when we are already capable of creating one. Of course, this does not also rule-out the possibility that it had been dormant all these years. But since this targets primates and humans, it must have been active early-on, since the early stages of man’s sexual activities in the planet dating back to the cromagnon. Most recent viral strains of other types are merely mutations of former prototypes. But the HIV is peculiar, because it’s totally novel. Like it simply came out of nowhere. And viruses dont behave like that. They mutate as they infect more. Because they’re really not alive unless they infect a host cell. The only way for new virus-types to come into existence is by either mutations from earlier prototypes or by artificial creation.
Robert Strecker, M.D., Ph.D., and Ted Strecker, Esq., were hired by a California HMO in 1983 to research the potential impact of AIDS, and studied hundreds of scientific journals which led them to conclude that the AIDS virus was predicted in 1966, requested in 1969, produced in the early 1970s and unleashed in the late 1970s via smallpox and hepatitis B vaccine trials in Africa and America. “The Strecker Memorandum” presents this fully documented information in a 97-minute video that was sent to every member of Congress in 1984, and is available at many alternative bookstores.
Alan Cantwell Jr, M.D. has published two well-documented books, AIDS and the Doctors of Death (1988) and ***** Blood (1993) outlining the man-made origin of AIDS. Dr. Cantwell, who has published over 30 papers on his cancer microbe research, initially dismissed AIDS biowarfare as absurd until he investigated the evidence compiled by the Strecker brothers. ***** Blood won the Benjamin Franklin Book Award in 1994.
William Campbell Douglas, M.D., National Health Federation’s 1985 Doctor of the Year, published AIDS:The End of Civilization, 1989, detailing the development of HIV by scientists working at the army’s biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
John Seale, M.D. concludes AIDS was man-made in “Origins of the AIDS Viruses, HIV-1 and HIV-2: Fact or Fiction?” (The British Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 81:617-619, 1988) .
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bearden (U.S. Army, retired) published AIDS Biological Warfare in 1988 which maintains that HIV was developed in American biowarfare labs. Bearden holds a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics, and heads an aerospace firm in Georgia.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, DMD, MA, MPH, a Harvard graduate, published Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola — Nature, Accident or Genocide in 1996. OutpostS Book Review calls it: “The most massive, well-documented assembly of evidence ever published in support of the idea that the AIDS virus could have been manufactured as a biological weapon… If you scoff at the notion, you won’t be so cocky once you see how much evidence exists.”
This is the best ever website. I have looked at over 10 docs in 3 days since I found this website and I love everyone of them. Great Job!!!
Easily the best documentary on the subject. Thanks for posting this and keeping it up.
ridge: have u watched “in lies we trust” (also on this site)? dr horrowitz did an amazing 2 1/2 hr doc listing all the proof for the cia’s involvement in most viruses we have today – including aids and cancer.
Excellent hypothesis.Can’t deny the research methods at the time (1950s) as far as how through human arrogance such things can and did happen. “Ridge” points out that it is naive to assume that such fiascos can be turned inside out,weaponised and put back into use for the vary purpose it was never ment for. Excellent journalism,great doc.