Polio Vaccine And Mesothelioma, Pdf No Implication Of Simian Virus 40 In Pathogenesis Of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma In Slovenia

Edward hooper lrb 3 april accuses me of having prepared chat an oral polio vaccine in chimpanzee cells contaminated with an hiv related virus in february 1958i have already categorically denied this in an article published in the transactions of the royal society in 2001.

Pictures of halloween ghost faces. The iom conclusions about polio vaccines and human cancer were. Markoatimihr from the croatian cancer registry period 1991 1997 194 malignant pleural mesothelioma patients were collected. The new evidence cited by hooper consists of interviews with two persons said to be former technicians in my lab in.

We used a polymerase chain reaction based method to test for the presence of sv40 like sequences in dna extracted from the frozen tumor tissues of 49 finnish mesothelioma patients most of whom had been occupationally exposed to asbestos. An inactivated poliovirus given by injection ipv and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth opv. Investigations have consistently demonstrated the oncogenic behavior of sv40 in animal models.

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The links between polio vaccine asbestos and mesothelioma began during the early 1950s when jonas salk used monkey kidneys to culture the great quantities of polio virus needed for his famous vaccine. 1institute for medical research and occupational health zagreb croatia. 1 the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation between sv40 containing polio vaccines and cancer because the epidemiological studies are sufficiently flawed.

The presence of sv40 in monkey cell cultures used in the preparation of the polio vaccine from 1955 through 1961 is well documented. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that usually develops in the lining of the lungs and its primary cause is asbestos exposure. In 1960 scientists found a virus in the monkey kidneys known as simian virus 40 sv40 had contaminated the vaccine.

Simian virus 40 sv40 like dna sequences not detectable in finnish mesothelioma patients not exposed to sv40 contaminated polio vaccines. The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world and reduced the number of cases reported each year. Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis polio.

Early epidemiologic studies were inadequate in demonstrating an increase in cancer incidence associated with contaminated vaccine. However in finland where polio vaccination started in 1957 no sv40 contaminated vaccine was used. Sv40 is a virus that contaminated polio vaccines between the 1950s and 1960s.