Guest guest Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Autism, vaccines and autistic American children may or may not be on Oprah's radar screen of causes she'll devote air time to. I believe there is a different vaccine in-road to make with her that may get more immediate attention. A group of children that is very high on her priority list is the millions of orphaned children in Africa due to AIDs. I saw one program devoted entirely to this cause and Oprah even stated that she believes that one reason she has not had any children is so that she can focus her time, energy, talents and attention to the plight of these children. I wonder if Oprah knows about the controversial but extremely compelling theory of the origin of AIDs put forth by journalist Hooper. His theory is that the oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950's is responsible for this pandemic. You can read more about this at www.aidsorigins.com. An excerpt from Hooper's home page follows: " By the end of 2004 AIDS will have killed nearly 30 million people, making it the worst outbreak of infectious disease in recorded history. The closest animal relative to HIV-1 (the AIDS virus) is a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) found in the common chimpanzee . There are many SIVs in nature, but they are only naturally found in African primates. For several years now, there have been only two really viable theories about how this chimp virus might have arrived in humans, and how the AIDS pandemic began. One theory, the " cut hunter " or " bushmeat " theory, has it that AIDS got started after an African hunter got infected with chimpanzee SIV while cutting up a chimp for the pot. This theory is non- controversial, but it has many problems and flaws. Most particularly, it fails to explain the timing and location of the earliest AIDS cases. The second theory, the " oral polio vaccine " or " OPV " theory, has it that AIDS began after an experimental OPV that had been cultured in chimpanzee cells was given to nearly a million Africans from the Congo (DRC), Burundi and Rwanda in the latter half of the 1950s. This hypothesis is highly controversial, and is rejected by many medical scientists, (including those who prepared and administered the vaccine). There is concerted opposition to the theory from those who publish and write in Nature and Science, the world's two leading scientific journals. However, despite the fact that many of the aforesaid scientists deny it, this is the theory that is supported by most of the available historical and scientific evidence. I believe that the OPV theory explains how AIDS emerged, with such devastating effect, in Man. You will find much of the information that supports this view (as well as much of that which opposes it) on this web-site. Ed Hooper, May 2004 " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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