Des interactions complexes entre les origines du VIH et sa pandemie, les activites coloniales en Afrique et la medecine coloniale Belge au Congo ; About the complex interactions between HIV origins and its pandemy, colonial activities in Africa and colonial medicine in Belgian Congo
peer reviewed ; In this review article on the origin of HIV, we start from a historical fact which involved physicians from Liege working in Belgian Congo: the vaccination against polio of hundreds of thousands of Congolese between 1957 and 1960. We explain the genesis of an alternative hypothesis postulating that this campaign was at the origin of HIV pandemy. We show that the hypothesis is unfounded in view of genetic and epidemiological evidence on the one hand and after thorough examination of the activity reports of the Laboratoire Medical de Stanleyville on the other. In the second part... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
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Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège
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Schlagwörter: | Human health sciences / General & internal medicine / Sciences de la santé humaine / Médecine générale & interne |
Sprache: | Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28888432 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/102818 |