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from animals infected with SIVcpz. The result of that flawed vaccinating, certain people have argued, was iatrogenic infection (disease caused by medical treatment) of an unknown number of Central Africans with what later became recognized as HIV-1. By this notion, known for short as the OPV (oral polio vaccine) theory, a single reckless researcher had seeded the continent—and the world—with AIDS.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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