| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
In his 1999 book The river, author Edward Hooper, a former BBC journalist, charted a remarkable theory regarding the possible origins of AIDS. He presented strong circumstantial evidence that pointed to the inadvertent contamination of an experimental oral polio vaccine administered in Africa in the late 1950s. Hooper argues that this vaccine most likely became the vehicle by which a simian precursor of HIV/AIDS carried by chimpanzees was able to jump the species barrier into humans. Hooper is being challenged to find concrete evidence to back up his contentions. This documentary follows Hooper to Burundi and the Ruzizi Valley in Ruanda, both areas where the local communities were used as guinea pigs in the trial of early polio vaccines |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast December 1, 2006. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Authors, Peter Chappell, Stéphane Horel ; producers, Christine Le Goff, Arnie Gelbart, Christine Pireaux |
| Performer |
Narrator, Marian Heard |
| Notes |
In English, French & Lingala with English Subtitles |
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Rated: PG |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- History
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AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology -- History
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| Author |
Chappell, Peter
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Pireaux, Christine
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Le Goff, Christine
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Horel, Stéphane
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Heard, Marian
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Hooper, Edward (Edward Jonathan).
The river : a journey to the source of HIV and AIDS
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SBS-TV
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