Did Dr. Robert Gallo create the AIDS virus at Ft Deitrick?

Question

I understand that Dr. Robert Gallo created the AIDS virus at the Ft. Deitrick bio-medical labs in Maryland and that it was introduced into the general population because of his sloppy bio-security measures.

I found this info at :

www.apfn.org/apfn/aids.htm

www.bbsradio.com/bbc/leonard_horowitz_radio.php

www.amazon.co.uk/Emerging-Viruses-Nature-Accident-Intentional/dp/0923550127

Somehow, a disease like AIDS just showing up out of the blue and ravaging the planet doesn't wash with me. And too many people are trying to point fingers in too many directions as to the source. Any thoughts on this?

Re: Sources for answer by dedum.

First of all, by definition, an "urban legend" is a story or anecdote that has no factual source or documentation.
The case against Dr. Gallo is extremely well documented by numerous reputable independant sources within the scientific community.
Secondly, using "Wikipedia" as an information source is unacceptable since Wikipedia itself disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy if the entries which can be submitted by anyone, for any reason and with any agenda. As I pointed out, and has been clearly demonstrated by the three answers submitted so far, after thirty years of public awareness, there are far more people subscribing to the "urban legends" of monkey sex, foreign sailors, flight attendants, etc. As for the simian source of AIDS, since monkeys have the same mortality rate from AIDS as humans, they should have been falling dead in Africa for years and, finally, ALL researchers you quoted were members of U.S. funded African bio-projects.

Answer 1

aids /came about / through a Green monkey /in Africa

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Dr Robert Gallo

Answer 4

dr robert gallo create aids virus ft deitrick

Answer 5

AIDS was introduced into the US in New Orleans in the late 1960's. It is believed to come from sailors on a merchant ship from a 3rd world country, possibly England. It spread rapidly among the gay community and was first diagnosed in San Diego in the early 70's. The virus has been traced to African apes and the jump to humans could have come from a bite or possible bestiality.

Answer 6

the men did not have sex with the apes. Africans consume ape and monkey flesh as Westerners consume deer or cow. The transmission would have occurred during butchering.
Researchers announced in May 2006 that the HIV virus most likely originated in wild chimpanzees in the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon (modern East Province) rather than in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), as had previously been believed. Seven years of research and 1,300 chimpanzee genetic samples led Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, to identify chimpanzee communities near Cameroon's Sanaga River as the most likely originators. Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else.[1] Calculating based on a fixed mutation rate, the jump from chimpanzee to human likely occurred during the French colonial period (1919–1960). Comparative primatologist Jim Moore suggests that this may have been the result of colonial practices of forced labour, which could have suppressed the immune system of the initial hunter enough to allow the virus to infect and take hold. Likewise, forced immunisations (using one needle on many patients) may have sped the virus's spread through Cameroon and beyond.[2]

A more controversial theory known as the OPV AIDS hypothesis suggests that the AIDS epidemic was inadvertently started in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's 1950s research into a polio vaccine prepared from tissue cultures using locally captured non-human primates.[3][4] Edward Hooper rejects the dates calculated using a fixed mutation rate on the basis that phylogenetic dating of "the most recombinogenic organisms known to medical science", immunodeficiency viruses, is "inherently incapable of making any allowance for recombination". [5] However, in February 2000 one of the original developers of the polio vaccine, Philadelphia-based Wistar Institute, found in its stores a phial of the original vaccine used in the vaccination program. It was analysed in April 2001 and no traces of either HIV-1 or SIV were found in the sample.[6] A second analysis showed that only macaque monkey kidney cells,which cannot be infected with SIV or HIV, were used to produce the vaccine.[7] While the analysis was done on only one phial of vaccine, most scientists have concluded that the polio vaccine theory of the origins of HIV is not possible.

After the initial transfer of HIV from a non-human primate to humans, the virus ultimately spread via contact among humans to the rest of the world. Since a cross species jump is most likely the origin of HIV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_origin

Answer 7

It came from apes in Africa and men having sex with the apes.