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The polio virus used in production of the vaccine
was grown on monkey kidney tissues and was contaminated
with a monkey virus, SV-40. When it was injected
into research animals it produced brain cancer.
In order to avoid a public panic or discredit the
public health service, the tainted vaccines were
not recalled, and the government quietly ordered
the manufacturers to find a monkey free of SV-40
and continue production. Between the years of 1955
and 1963 as many as 98 million Americans had received
doses of live polio virus vaccines tainted with
SV-40.
In the early 1990's, Michele Carbone, Assistant
Professor of Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago,
isolated fragments of the SV-40 virus in human bone
cancers and in a particularly nasty form of lung
cancer called mesotheliomas. SV-40 appeared in 33%
of the osteosarcoma bone cancers studied, in 40%
of other bone cancers, and in 60% of the mesotheliomas.
Dr. Carbone believes this could explain why 50%
of the current mesotheliomas being treated were
no longer occurring in association with their traditional
cause of asbestos exposure.
An Italian team of researchers from the Institute
of Histology and General Embryology of the University
of Ferrara lead by Dr. Femanda Martini discovered
SV-40's presence in various other tumors: 83% of
choroid plexus papillomas, 73% of ependymonias,
47% of astrocytomas, 50% of glioblastomas, and in
14% of meningiomas.
The virus was found in 2.3% of blood samples and
45% of sperm fluids taken from normal individuals
- "normal" meaning free of disease at
the time of testing. The virus could be transmitted
sexually and through blood transfusions. Now SV-40
appears in 61% of all new cancer patients - patients
too young to have received the contaminated vaccine
from forty years ago. It is also suspected that
SV-40 is transmissible from mother to child during
pregnancy.
There is also speculation that the AIDS virus,
HIV, was created when SIV (a similar virus found
in monkeys) was accidentally injected into humans.
HIV was formed as a combination of human and monkey
genetic material (a chimera). The SIV was introduced
into human population via polio vaccination.
Notes:
The following confirm previous reports that SV-40
is present in a significant proportion of human
brain tumors: Martini et al. SV-40 Early Region
and Large T Antigen in Human Brain Tumors, Peripheral
Blood Cells, and Sperm Fluids from Healthy Individuals.
Cancer Research 56: 4820-4825, 1996). Another report
of SV-40 in human brain tumors: Bergsagel et al.
New England Journal of Medicine 326: 988-993, 1992.
SV-40 has also been detected in a high proportion
of human mesotheliomas (Carbone et al. Oncogene
9: 1781-1790, 1994); and in bone tumors called osteogenic
sarcomas (Carbone et al. Oncogene 1996).
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