[T]he largest vaccine contamination in medical history occurred from 1954 through early 1963, when millions of people around the world received polio vaccines that had been contaminated with a monkey virus.

- Polio Vaccines and the Origin of AIDS
B. F. ELSWOOD and R. B. STRICKER
Medical Hypotheses, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 347-354

Also relevant: The Corruption of Science and the Origin of AIDS: A Study in Spontaneous Generation by Louis Pascal.

Hilary Koprowski has been admonished of culpability and has successfully sued individuals who suggested his involvement in the creation and spread of AIDS.

Funny coincidence, though, isn’t it?

Rahner and Horton realized comic books were an ideal medium for portraying their story of a reluctant government agent sent to investigate strange happenings in remote and often backward Western towns — and its underlying criticism of today’s social and political ills. In their series, as in real life, “If you’re a rational, skeptical, independent thinker, you’re going to be alone — and you’re going to have a lot of enemies,” Rahner said.

Like horror movies, comics have always been “stand-ins for what people were really scared of,” Reid said.

- Zombies in Seattle: Be afraid, be very afraid
by Christy Karras for the Seattle Times
2009-12-12

A sentiment I’ve mused upon in the past – there is certainly something to the notion… (and I do tend to talk of zombies often enough)

That’s great. Now shut up and get back to work.

Between Peace and Happiness via This Isn’t Happiness

Oh-so very fucking related…