Spreading a man made epidemic!

“Smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus” read the front page of the London Times newspapers on May 11, 1987. The story suggested that the smallpox eradication vaccine program which was sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) was responsible for the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The smallpox vaccine connections to AIDS explains why Brazil, which was the only South American country covered in the WHO eradication campaign, has the highest incidence of AIDS in that region. Robert Gallo, a co-discoverer of HIV and director of the Institute of Human Virology, stated "The link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say it actually happened but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV." This raises a very controversial question. Was AIDS really introduced in Africa during the WHO vaccine program?

This is very controversial topic that has ignited the notion that HIV/AIDS is a man made disease and “us” humans were the test subjects. I find it very hard to believe that HIV/AIDS is not manmade and the fact that the WHO aided in its emergence around the world makes me believe that at any time we all can become “lab rats” without giving any consent. AIDS has the highest prevalence in Sub-Saharan “Black Africa” where the vast majority of the people are dark skinned. “I’m not gonna even jump into this big racial spill but facts are facts.” Or maybe the fact that in the US, the virus was thought to only be a homosexual disease, “but I’m not gonna get into a big spill about prejudices either”. The HIV/AIDS epidemic gives me the feeling I felt the first time I heard about The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Except in this case it is on a much larger scales and more lives have been sacrificed, but for what? Science? Is it not wrong to target human beings and make them your “lab rats”? Experimenting on human being especially to the extent of giving people HIV/AIDS or letting them live with Syphilis to monitor the effect it has on humans if untreated is devaluing the life of a human being. We have come so far in society but yet we are still so far away from where we need to be.