No Proof
Polio Vaccine Later Caused Cancer (10/23/02)
Vaccine safety experts reported Tuesday that they could not say
whether contaminated polio (news web sites) vaccine given decades ago to millions of
Americans caused cancer later in life.
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Legal Documents Raise Question of Whether Polio Vaccines
Remained Tainted With SV40 After 1961, HarrisMartin Reports. (12/13/00)
The author
of a paper set to appear later this month in a cancer research
journal says there is reason to doubt claims that oral polio
vaccines distributed in recent decades were free of simian virus
40 (SV40), HarrisMartin Publishing reports.
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SV40,
Asbestos, and Mesothelioma - Where Are We Going? (11/7/00)
Lately, there has been a little more buzz than usual about SV40. Simian (i.e.
monkey) virus 40, a DNA tumor virus, is believed to have been introduced to a significant
portion of the human population between 1955 and 1963 through polio vaccines. The polio
vaccines were prepared in the kidney cells of rhesus monkeys, and apparently were
contaminated with SV40 present in those cells.
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SV40 Sequences
in Mesothelioma Predict Poorer Survival (10/2/00)
Italian
researchers have found that expression of simian virus-40
sequences in biopsy specimens from patients with malignant
pleural mesothelioma is significantly associated with poor
prognosis, particularly in tumors with biphasic or sarcomatous morphology. Their findings are
reported in the October issue of Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer.
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SV40, Asbestos
and Mesothelioma: Hot Potato, Red Herring or Silver Bullet?
(9/18/00)
Depending upon whom we represent, asbestos lawyers either eagerly
await or dread any new scientific research on SV40.
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