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Correspondence
Nature 407, 941 (26 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35039727
No evidence to link polio vaccine with HIV ...
Stanley A. Plotkin1 & Hilary Koprowski2
- Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901 , USA
- Thomas Jefferson University, Room M85, Jefferson Alumni Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
We would like to add two clarifications to your editorial and News story about the Royal Society meeting on the origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the hypothesis that oral polio vaccine may have been contaminated1, 2.First, contrary to your statement, and as presented at the meeting, only two batches of vaccine were used in the mass vaccinations conducted in the Congo before 1959, the date of the first confirmed HIV infection in a human.
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