December, 1996

Mr. Frank Lalli
Managing Editor
Money Magazine
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020

Dear Editor Lalli,

December's "Lethal Dangers of the Vaccine Business" was a great public service. As the author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola_Nature, Accident or Intentional? I congratulate Money for being the first mainstream publication to expose this horrifying medical_pharmaceutical debacle_oral polio vaccine contamination with the carcinogenic monkey virus SV40. Many of our current and coming plagues, including AIDS (which the article overlooked) may be linked to such sloppy science and to contaminated vaccine preparations.

The theory that the human AIDS virus (HIV-1) evolved from SV40 contaminated vaccines was pioneered by attorney Walter Kyle in The Lancet. At the 1996 XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver, during a scientific session, I further advanced this thesis by providing documented evidence that SV40 contaminated monkeys and chimpanzees were used by Merck, the FDA, CDC, and the NIAID, to produce four subtypes of hepatitis B vaccines comprising 200,000 human doses that were simultaneously administered in 1974 to Central African villagers, gay men in New York City, and Willowbrook State School mentally retarded children on Staten Island. These test subjects had ten to fifteen years earlier received SV40 contaminated Salk and Sabin polio vaccines likewise produced using contaminated monkeys. Additional overlooked viral contaminants included herpes type viruses like Epstein Barr and simian cytomegalovirus, and simian foamy retroviruses that included the unique AIDS-linked enzyme "reverse transcriptase." In essence these people, from whom serum was taken to produce the early hepatitis B vaccines, were live incubation chambers for various mutating laboratory contaminants and animal viruses.

Obviously this was an "accident" waiting to happen. It also best explains the virtually simultaneous emergence of various strains of HIV-1 throughout the world by the mid to late 1970s. Despite several unconfirmed claims that HIV-1 and AIDS cases existed prior to 1970, the earliest confirmed isolation is that of a 1976 strain.

Thus your expos‚ on SV40 contamination of live viral vaccines has far more serious implications.

Very sincerely,

Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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