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AIDS <strong>and</strong> Ebola:<br />

Where Did<br />

They Really<br />

Come From<br />

Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz<br />

During the 1960s <strong>and</strong> early 1970s the World Health Organization functioned<br />

as the omnipotent supplier <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ardizing authority <strong>of</strong> the world's<br />

experimental pharmaceuticals. In the field <strong>of</strong> virology, the United States<br />

Public Health Service (USPHS) <strong>and</strong> National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health (NIH)<br />

directed the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to become, along with the<br />

Centers for Disease Control <strong>and</strong> Prevention (CDC) the WHO's chief distributor<br />

<strong>of</strong> viruses <strong>and</strong> antiviral vaccines. The WHO Chronicle noted by<br />

1968—ten years into the WHO's viral research program—"WHO virus<br />

reference centres" had served as authorized technical advisors <strong>and</strong> suppliers<br />

<strong>of</strong> "prototype virus strains, diagnostic <strong>and</strong> reference reagents (e.g.,<br />

antibodies), antigens, <strong>and</strong> cell cultures" for more than "120 laboratories in<br />

35 different countries." Within a year <strong>of</strong> this announcement, this number<br />

increased to "592 virus laboratories . . . [<strong>and</strong>] only 137 were outside<br />

Europe <strong>and</strong> North America." Over these 12 months, the NCI <strong>and</strong> CDC<br />

helped the WHO distribute 2,514 strains <strong>of</strong> viruses, 1,888 ampoules <strong>of</strong><br />

antisera mainly for reference purposes, 1,274 ampoules <strong>of</strong> antigens, <strong>and</strong><br />

about 100 samples <strong>of</strong> cell cultures. More than 70,000 individual reports <strong>of</strong><br />

virus isolations or related serological tests had been transmitted through<br />

the WHO-NCI network. 12<br />

At the NCI in Bethesda, Maryl<strong>and</strong>, from the late 1960s to the present,<br />

the chief retrovirus research laboratory was associated with the Department<br />

<strong>of</strong> Cell Tumor Biology, <strong>and</strong> chaired by Dr. Robert Gallo—an<br />

esteemed member <strong>of</strong> the National Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences (NAS) who was<br />

hailed by the U.S. Secretary <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>and</strong> Human Services Margaret<br />

Heckler in 1984 as the discoverer <strong>of</strong> the AIDS virus, HTLV-III. LAV,<br />

identical to HTLV-III had been isolated by Montagnier's French team <strong>and</strong><br />

allegedly forwarded to Gallo in 1983. 3

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