ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Polio Vaccine, Robert Gallo, Smallpox Vaccine
31 Aug 2016
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*aids is a worse state of hiv, after the immune system is severely compromised: contamination of smallpox vaccine and oral polio vaccine in the early 1980s. Believed that the vaccine would release aids: a man-made organism developed by the us government scientists and the cia, population-control ploy or bio-warfare. Unsterile needles may have contributed to this at the time: the green monkey theory and the hunter theory - primate (chimp) and human encounter (i. e. sexual contact and eating primate meat) Aids is second only the black death as the largest epidemic in history. Globally, estimated 35m people are living with hiv as of 2013. Slightly over 0. 6% of the world is infected with the virus. Women account for 46% of these cases (16m) Aids kills over 2m people a year, or about one person every 15 seconds. Rst case from man in manhattan in 1979. In 1981 recorded clusters of kaposi sarcoma cases recorded globally.
