9. Was the polio shot given in the 50's and 60's contaminated with monkey virus? Is it causing cancer? Did it cause AIDS?



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 SV40.

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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