Virology

Book says monkey virus contaminated polio vaccine

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 15th, 2004

A monkey virus that was introduced to humans in the polio vaccine that was given to hundreds of millions of people in the 1950s and 1960s is the cause of a variety of rare cancers appearing now, a new book argues.

The Virus and the Vaccine by a Burlington couple argues that the medical establishment in the United States refused to publicize the danger posed by the virus after it was first discovered in 1961.

The system used to make polio vaccine was not changed until 1963 and the risk of contamination was not eliminated completely until 2000. As a result millions more Americans were unnecessarily exposed to the virus, known to scientists as...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-06-15)

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