RESPONSE: Paul M. Osterrieth, MD, Ph.D. - November 20, 2001
In a paper presented at a meeting of the Academmia Nazionale dei Lincei on September 28, 2001, Mr. Edward Hooper made a very grave accusation: namely, that I had prepared CHAT oral polio vaccine in chimpanzee cells for human use in the former Belgian Congo, which cells were contaminated with the chimpanzee relative of HIV-1.
New evidence from Edward Hooper, the author of The River, reveals that the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) theory of origin is not dead , as some scientists have insisted. Hooper recently interviewed several of those who used to work in the Medical Laboratory of Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, and at the nearby Lindi chimpanzee
Dr. G. Steven Kooshian was on the telephone one recent morning, trying to spin me. In two articles, I had reported on two lawsuits alleging that the prominent Newport Beach doctor dispensed fake AIDS drugs in an illegal moneymaking scheme. The 50-year-old physician spoke slowly, often pausing for three or four seconds
There s more bad news for Dr. G. Steven Kooshian, a prominent Newport Beach AIDS physician accused of giving his patients useless injections instead of life-saving drugs. Multiple sources say officials with the medical board of California are investigating Kooshian after his longtime nurse, Virgil Opinion, filed a July
In his attorney s office, Virgil Opinion--a longtime medical technician for a prominent Newport Beach doctor--uttered a patient s name and then bowed his head and wept. After half a minute, the 42-year-old wiped tears from his eyes, shifted in his seat and stared out the window at the distant Saddleback Mountains. He r
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