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also present in Salk’s injectable IPV vaccine when the microbes survived the formaldehyde “killing” process.
In 1996, Michele Carbone, a molecular pa- thologist at Loyola University Medical Center, was able to detect SV40 in 38 percent of patients with bone cancer and in 58 percent of those with mesothelioma, a deadly type of lung cancer.1 By April 2001, sixty-two papers from thirty laboratories around the world had reported SV40 in human tissues and tumors, including pituitary and thyroid cancers.1 Dr. Hilleman later admitted—on tape—that Merck knew that the vaccines were contaminated but continued to dispense them to the public anyway.26
The polio vaccines used today supposedly do not contain SV40, yet one must consider the fact that it took the CDC fifty years to be forth- right and admit that their recommended polio vaccines had been tainted.27 Until recently, the agency’s admission that as many as thirty mil- lion Americans could be at risk for developing cancer due to SV40-contaminated polio vac- cines could be found on the CDC website; the CDC later removed this information, but it can still be found in archived format.28
After the 1960 disclosure that the polio vaccines were contaminated with SV40, it took another three years for the NIH Divi- sion of Biologics Standards to recall the vac- cines. During this time, over one million more Americans were vaccinated with the potentially contaminated, cancer-causing polio vaccines. When the government put new regulations in place in 1963, which were meant to protect the public from SV40, regulators required only that manufacturers wait fourteen days to determine whether SV40 was growing before proceeding to make the vaccine. It was later discovered, however, that a slower-growing form of the sim- ian virus, which took nineteen days to appear, could well have been in the approved vaccines that went out the door to the public. Due to these inadequate testing guidelines, millions more people may have received contaminated vaccines all the way through the 1990s. Some estimate that the number of Americans at risk may be as high as one hundred million,27 and perhaps another one hundred million people
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elsewhere in the world may also have been put at risk. Could this be one of the reasons that one in three baby boomers experience cancer, up from one in eight thousand only a few decades ago?27
Given that monkey kidneys are still used in the manufacturing of today’s polio vaccines, what about current safety? Do polio vaccines still have the potential to cause cancer or other harmful effects? Miller quotes Harvard Medical School professor Ronald Desrosier, who bluntly stated to CNN in 1996 that “The danger in using monkey tissue to produce human vaccines is that some viruses produced by monkeys may be transferred to humans in the vaccine, with very bad health consequences.”29 Desrosier warned that testing can only be done for known viruses and that our knowledge is limited to about 2 percent of existing monkey viruses.29
According to Miller, SV40 was actually “just one of numerous simian viruses known to have contaminated polio vaccines” [emphasis in original].1 His research has shone a light not only on SV40 but also on the AIDS epidemic and its possible origination. Miller has written that by the mid-1980s, with the advent of more sophisticated testing procedures:
Researchers discovered that about 50 percent of all African green monkeys— the primate of choice for making polio vaccines—were infected with simian im- munodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the infectious agent thought to pre- cede AIDS. This caused some researchers to wonder whether HIVs may simply be SIVs ‘residing in and adapting to a human host.’ It caused others to suspect that SIV may have mutated into HIV once it was introduced into the human population by way of contaminated polio vaccines.1
In short, potentially millions of people were infected with monkey viruses capable of caus- ing AIDs, and this cross-species transfer most likely occurred by way of SIV-contaminated polio vaccines.1
Also troubling to Miller is the fact that polio vaccines are sometimes grown in calf serum. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)—
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It took the CDC fifty years to be forthright
and admit
that their recommended polio vaccines had been tainted.
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