HEALTH: ‘Ebola and HIV were man-made’

Aids and Ebola viruses did not originate from monkeys left alone in the wild — they were bio-engineered in American laboratories. So says an internationally-known public health authority with Harvard credentials, Dr Leonard G. Horowitz, based on a review of more than 2,500 government documents and scientific reports, some gained through the Freedom of Information Act and never before revealed to the general public.

HIV-1 and its parent HIV-2, have been traced to National Cancer Institute (NCI) and military funded cancer virus experiments which used infected African green monkeys to produce vaccines intended to prevent hepatitis, leukemia, and other cancers.

The documented evidence revealed in Dr Horowitz’s book, Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola — Nature, Accident or Genocide? (Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 1996), shows that NCI researchers, during the 1960s, mixed viral genes from different animals to produce leukemia, sarcoma, general wasting, and death.

This provided the “cancer models” used to study human cancer and begin human vaccine trials. The book, described as the first in-depth exploration into the origins of Aids and Ebola, and its controversial conclusions, have offended many top Aids researchers, and been hailed by numerous others who have long questioned the green monkey theory, or feared disease outbreaks from viral vaccine experiments.

Reconciling the origin of Aids and Ebola, as Dr Horowitz has now done, is important for several reasons: First, many feel that victims of Aids should not be blamed for starting the epidemic. With this evidence, those living with HIV/Aids may now be freed from the stigma, shame, and guilt associated with the infection — a boost to their natural immunity.

Second, new therapies might be developed from a better understanding of HIV’s origin. Third, the events precipitating such epidemics should never be allowed to happen again. It is ethically important to understand and, therefore, prevent future outbreaks.

Finally, those directly implicated in HIV’s development and transmission are the same individuals and institutions capitalising on the epidemic and humanity’s suffering. Though many might consider this preposterous, as one Emerging Viruses review recently cautioned, “withhold any out-of-hand dismissal until you read this book”. — wires