"Origin of AIDS"

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"Origin of AIDS"

Lancet (12/21-28/91) Vol. 338, No. 8782/8783, P. 1604
Gebhardt, D.O.E

Abstract: The November 28 edition of Nature's commentary entitled "AIDS, monkeys, and malaria" indicated that primate retroviruses may have been transmitted to a man or other monkeys as an outcome fo experiments with primate malarias, writes D.O.E. Gebhardt of the Department fo Clinical Chemistry at the University Hosptial in Leiden, Netherlands. The same week an editorial in the Lancet on New Glands for Old appeared which referred to the work of Serge Voronoff, who transplanted monkey glands into the scrota of hypogonadal males. These men could have contracted HIV. Voronoff described a 65-year-old man who needed a second graft as "having been over-prodigal of the vital energy supplied him by the old one." It would be catastrophic if this transplant were the origin of the AIDS epidemic, Gebhardt concludes.

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