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Vaccine
Safety > Issues of Interest > AIDS
Origin
of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS)
The suggestion
that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the
AIDS virus, originated as a result of inadvertent
innoculation of an HIV-like virus present in
monkey kidney cell cultures used to prepare
polio vaccine is one of a number of unsubstantiated
hypotheses.
The weight of
scientific evidence does not support this idea
and there is no more reason to believe this
hypothesis than many other which have been
considered and rejected on scientific grounds.
Since the 1960's,
billion of doses of oral polio vaccine have
been delivered worldwide and no association
with HIV infection has ever been recorded.
U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control
March 6, 1992
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