Cancer, Viruses, Monkeys And Polio
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From ABCNews.com, comes an article titled "Mystery Of The Monkey Virus - How Could SV40 Have Infected Humans, And What Are The Potential Consequences?"The article opens with the question "It is a mystery with enormous implications that has stumped some of the smartest minds in cancer research: How did a cancer-causing monkey virus end up in human tumors?" In 1994, according to the article, Dr. Michele Carbone, a Loyola University researcher, found the SV40 monkey virus in human lung tumors that he was studying. Since then, some 60 different lab studies have confirmed the results that were found in his first study. How did a monkey virus end up in human cancer tissue? Some question whether the SV40 monkey virus was transmitted by the polio vaccine. The polio vaccine is made using monkey kidney cells and according to the article, from 1955 to 1963 an estimated 20 million Americans were given doses of polio vaccine that were contaminated with the SV40 monkey virus. In 1961, the Food and Drug Administration ordered vaccine manufactures to screen out the monkey virus from the vaccine, which the manufactures say they did. A lawyer involved in a recent polio case has just published a report claiming that contamination from the monkey virus has continued in polio vaccinations and questions whether the vaccines manufactures screen for SV40. Some also believe that the SV40 monkey virus is now being transmitted from mother to child as it has shown up in brain tumors of people born after 1963. Many scientists believe that is important to find out how this monkey virus came to be in humans and why it is showing up in cancerous human tumors. ABCNews.com: Mystery Of The Monkey Virus
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