Post claims WHO gave Africans HIV-laced smallpox vaccines

A trending post shares a video claiming that WHO gave millions of Africans smallpox vaccines laced with HIV. The video features a real 1987 New York Times article that baselessly speculated that the smallpox vaccines “triggered the AIDS virus.” 

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