©2002 San Francisco Chronicle

The link is to a reprint.

Even more troubling, the virus has been detected in tumors removed from people never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, leading some to worry that those infected by the vaccine might be spreading SV40.

Some choice articles:

Smallpox, The Looming Disaster of Mandatory Vaccinations
Autism, Encephalitis, & Vaccination
Vaccinations in Africa - a new twist
Are vaccinations used for curent population control by sterilising mothers in developing countries?
THIS IS WHY I WOULD NEVER VACCINATE MY CHILDREN!!!
Early polio vaccine harbored virus now feared to cause cancer! Rogue virus in the vaccine
CDC Advances Totalitarian Legislation Under Guise of "Public Health":
Forced Drugging and Injections Are On The Horizon
Shaken Baby Syndrome or Adverse Vaccine Reaction?

All followed by a [sic] of course.

Its a reprint of a San Francisco Chronicle article as you would've known if you read it..

I was writing when you posted that and the comment wasn't directed at you.

Or any other studies to confirm these findings?

would've been shown in the US.

See here too :

SV40 is an abbreviation for Simian vacuolating virus 40 or Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans. Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has the potential to cause tumors, but most often persists as a latent infection.

SV40 became a highly controversial subject after it was revealed that millions were exposed to the virus after receiving a contaminated polio vaccine.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV40

Thanks for the link as well to Dr. Racaniello's website. I look forward to reading it in depth.

that it was not those who had the flawed vacs pre-1960 who were affected - it is their children and grandchildren.

No - I cannot access the BBC documentary from years ago on the subject which discussed this.

Would you seriously rather return to the days of polio? You are usually saner than that!

of trying to think.

"Let's see: believe the trained immunologist or the Playboy Bunny? Hmmmm."

who can never be questioned, come out in numbers --to ensure that dissenting opinions are not aired.

I'm sure some people are expressing their own ideas, I'm equally sure some of the enforcers of the code of conformity are paid trolls. or unpaid.

there is no other suspected path in which the SV40 virus could've got into our children and grandchildren. It's presence in the flawed vaccine up to the early '60s was found to be beyond doubt.

I am not anti vaccine and neither is anyone I know.

If it wasn't an issue why did this occur ?

Upon the discovery that SV40 was an animal carcinogen that had found its way into the polio vaccines, a new federal law was passed in 1961 that required that no vaccines contain this virus. However, this law did not require that SV40 contaminated vaccines be thrown away or that the contaminated seed material (used to make all polio vaccines for the next four decades) be discarded. As a result, known SV40 contaminated vaccines were injected into children up until 1963. In addition, it has been alleged that there have been SV40-contaminated batches of oral polio vaccine administered to some children until the end of the 1990's.

http://www.sv40foundation.org/

I see that not even the anti-vax site came up with the 'fuck you, Jonas Salk' - that was you. Salk saved many lives, and improved even more, with his vaccine. The article does not indicate he had anything at all to do with the decisions after the virus was discovered. Do you really hold that the Salk vaccine has been a bad thing, overall?

In 1941, at the University of Michigan, doctors Francis and Jonas Salk and other researchers deliberately infected patients at several Michigan mental institutions with the influenza virus by spraying the virus into their nasal passages. Francis Rous, editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine wrote the following to Francis regarding the experiments:

"It may save you much trouble if you publish your paper ... elsewhere than in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The Journal is under constant scrutiny by the anti-vivisectionists who would not hesitate to play up the fact that you used for your tests human beings of a state institution. That the tests were wholly justified goes without saying."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

In December 1997 Channel 4 showed a Dispatches investigative television documentary I co-produced with Rosie Thomas. It was on one of the most serious topics I have ever investigated. What we found was more serious than the Mad Cow outbreak - but perhaps because our program went out just before Christmas, the newspapers did not cover it. The following is a copy of the leaflet I wrote to go with the program. Please distribute. Jani Roberts.

In 1961&endash;2, the Medical Research Council in Britain reported that a monkey virus &endash; simian virus 40 (SV40) &endash; that caused cancer in hamsters was contaminating the polio vaccine given to millions of people around the world. However, SV40 was then presumed not to harm humans. When, in 1972, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the virus had been detected in human brain cancers, no alarm was taken. Then in 1996, a number of scientists reported finding SV40 in many human cancers of the bone, brain and lung lining, and that the virus causes 'severe chromosome damage' in human cells.

These research findings were finally taken very seriously. In January 1997, the first international scientific workshop on SV40, sponsored jointly by the US government's major health agencies, was held in Washington DC. Over 100 scientists from around the world attended &endash; as did a senior representative of the UK's Department of Health and film producers commissioned by Channel 4's Dispatches.

Many at this conference now believe that the most likely source for the monkey virus contamination of the human population was the millions of doses of polio vaccine distributed around the world between 1955 and 1963, including in the UK. That the polio vaccine had been contaminated was actually admitted in Parliament back in 1988, but at that time the government said it believed the virus to be harmless in humans. But research from many laboratorities was presented at However, in the opinion of the 1997 conference, that indicated that SV40, &endash; now endemic in the human population, could &endash; could have a role in causing thousands of human cancers.

http://www.witch.plus.com/monkey-viruses.html

The overall issue isn't just that it infected those vaccinated with flawed vaccine its that it was then passed onto their children. You will not find any other references to how children who never had the flawed vaccine could possibly have dna related to SV40 in the bodies other than by inheritance.

From today we have this "DNA test reveals 80 markers for inherited cancer risk" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21945812 so at least they'll look for it more closely now.

As your Wikipedia link points out, the connection between the virus and cancers in humans is not clear. The lives saved, and improvement in quality of life, from a polio vaccine, has clearly outweighed the worst assumptions of what the virus may have caused. But I guess you needed to blow off steam with the 'fuck you' to a guy who saved lives.

If was I wouldn't have bothered to have tetanus and hep A a couple of years back. Never had any issues with either of my children having the full works either. In fact I don't even know anyone who is here - thought that was just US paranoia.

To my mind ignoring this subject is no different from ignoring climate change for example - don't make it go away.

you are clearly shpowing you are against the polio vaccine ever being invented. You are anti-vaccine. You have to accept it.

It was in response to a post elsewhere which failed to tell the whole story and the sheer number of friends who've died from brain tumours one of which was my wife. My wife wasn't anti vacs either.

You're blaming Salk. I'm sorry about your wife, but the link between any human cancer and the vaccine is unproven. But it wasn't Salk who made any decisions about continuing to use an infected supply. The lives saved are proven, however.