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World epidemics. It is not unreasonable to question the efficiency and veracity of this organization, but who will accept the challenge? Certainly not the worldwide medical and research establishment, nor the mainstream media. As things stand, the World Health Organization is answerable to no one. Simple requests for information to its New York and Geneva headquarters, during the researching of this article, have been ignored.

Yet many health industry professionals are well aware of the smallpox vaccine theory. This reporter has personally spoken with a young New York University researcher, a German medical student, and a boyhood friend who is now a general practitioner in Connecticut: all were aware of the story and expressed discomfort in discussing it.

Likewise, the few and rare serious inquiries into the origin of AIDS have faced lockstep denials from the medical establishment and non-interest from the mainstream media. Last year in Rolling Stone (March 19, 1992), investigative reporter Tom Curtis examined the link between polio vaccine distributed in Africa, the monkey serum used, and the outbreak of AIDS. None of the medical professionals questioned, including Dr. Gallo, made mention of the hidden but still-smoldering smallpox vaccination theory. While the polio vaccine theory involves a 30-plus-years period; 325,000 recipients; and oral vaccine, the smallpox vaccine theory involves an alarmingly precise time period, millions of recipients, and shared needles. However, both cases involve an origin in Central Africa and the possibility of simian (monkey) AIDS in vaccine serum.

It is worth noting that the London-based Nation Anti-Vivisection Society, a group opposed to the use of live animals in medical experimentation, has long suspected a link between vivisection and AIDS.

Few-if any people interested in the origin of AIDS are scientists or medical professionals. But, despite the layman's misused bit of terminology here or there, that should not discourage our demand for answers. The truth, when it comes, will be simple enough. Ironically, it is the AIDS epidemic in America and the backlash against gays that keeps overburdened gay rights organizations from even addressing this issue.

Clearly, the gay media, perhaps alone, must stand up to the challenge of investigating the origin of AIDS. So far, most gay publications have shown the same noninterest as the mainstream media-and too many gay activists still believe the matter of origin is beside the point.

Early this year, this reporter contacted New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz, a gay man with AIDS, about this story. He replied by saying that he is in the middle of so many stories about AIDS that he couldn't even begin to look into this one. But he added, “That I have to pass on this, however, should not be taken as a sign that I do not consider the issue important. I do. Obviously, finding the origin of the virus might well be a crucial element of finding its cure."

Whatever the answer to the origin of AIDS, the question should not be dismissed by a glib statement from a largelyunmonitored body like the World Health Organization. As for the smallpox vaccine theory, after six years not one scientist has said, "It isn't true because..." They haven't had to answer. No one is asking.

Jerry Rosco is an associate editor at Mandate magazine. A contributor to many journals and magazines, he co-edited Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott (1991, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and is writing a biography of Westcott, a gay 1920s expatriate novelist.

Reprinted with permission from the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco.

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