Postscript relating to new allegations made by Edward Hooper at The Royal Society Discussion Meeting on 11 September 2000.
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At The Royal Society Discussion Meeting, Origins of HIV and the AIDS epidemic, which this issue records, Edward Hooper added two new 'smoking guns' to the accusations published previously in The river. These were proposed as conclusive evidence for the hypothesis that simian immunodeficiency virus-contaminated CHAT polio vaccine caused the HIV-1 group M epidemic. We have investigated the facts in relation to these 'smoking guns'.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
دوره 356 1410 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001