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Poliomylitis, or polio for short, is a disease that has been around since ancient
times, and despite the medical advances we have made in the United States in terms of
regular and natural health, there is still no cure for this dreaded, disabling disease.
An infectious viral affliction that attacks nerve cells and, at times, the body's central
nervous system, polio causes a phenomenon known as muscle wasting
(a decrease in the mass of muscle), and can also cause paralysis and death.
"Since 1900 there had been cycles of epidemics, each seeming to get stronger and more
disastrous. The disease, whose early
symptoms are like the flu, struck mostly children, although adults, including
Franklin Roosevelt, caught it too," said a report in the journal A Science Odyssey.
In 1952 that all changed, when Dr. Jonas Salk, a medical student and virus researcher, developed a vaccine against polio that, two years
later, was accepted for testing
nationwide. The principle behind the vaccine was simple and familiar: Like the vaccine
that had been developed to fight smallpox, the polio vaccine introduced a small
amount of the virus into the body,
which then developed antibodies and an ability to fight off more powerful strains of the
disease.
Admittedly, Salk's vaccine logged early success; some 60-70 percent of those vaccinated
did not develop the disease. But it also saw some early problems. About 200 people who had been vaccinated got the
disease, and 11 of them died, forcing a halt to all testing. Once it was determined that a
faulty, poorly manufactured batch of the vaccine was the cause of those cases, stricter
production standards were implemented and full-scale vaccinations nationwide resumed once
more. Four million vaccines were
given by 1955; by 1959, 90 countries were using it.
That said, those early cases were far from the last time the vaccine killed. In fact,
throughout its history of use, Salk's polio
vaccine left a path of death its wake.
Production and nationwide distribution of the polio vaccine was in full force by
the end of the 1950s, but between 1959 and 1960 Dr. Bernice Eddy, a researcher with the
National Institute of Health (NIH), made
a startling discovery.
While examining the minced kidney cells of rhesus monkeys - from which the the polio vaccines were derived - she discovered
"that the cells would die without any apparent cause," according to a report by
Michael E. Horwin, M.A., J.D., published in the Nov. 3, 2003, issue of the Albany Law
Journal of Science & Technology.
Horwin writes:
Dr. Eddy discovered that the cells would die without any apparent cause. She then took
suspensions of the cellular material from these kidney cell cultures and injected them
into hamsters. Cancers grew in the hamsters. Shortly thereafter, scientists at the pharmaceutical
company Merck & Co. discovered
what would later be determined to be the same virus identified by Eddy. This virus was
named Simian Virus 40 or SV40 because it was the 40th simian virus found in monkey kidney
cells.
A few months later, in 1960, Dr. Benjamin Sweet and Dr. Maurice Hillman, both Merck
scientists, published their findings.
They wrote that such viruses were
common in that particular breed of money, particularly in their kidneys:
The discovery of this new virus, the vacuolating agent, represents the detection for
the first time of a hitherto "non-detectable" simian virus of monkey renal
cultures and raises the important question of the existence of other such viruses . . . .
As shown in this report, all 3 types of Sabin's live poliovirus vaccine, now fed to
millions of persons of all ages, were contaminated with vacuolating virus...
The term "vacuolating virus" is another name for SV40, Horwin said, adding that
later, in 1962, Dr. Eddy published more findings regarding the link between cancer and SV40:
The (SV40) virus was injected at once into 13 newborn hamsters and 10 newborn mice.
Subcutaneous neoplasms indistinguishable from those induced by the rhesus monkey kidney
extracts developed in 11 of the 13 hamsters between 156 and 380 days...
Shortly after Dr. Eddy's discovery was made public, a host of high-powered
researchers and scientists, including Dr. Salk himself, stepped forward to defend the
polio vaccine.
An Associated Press story published April 7, 1963 ("New Data Ties Cancer,
Virus"), featured quotes from a number of scientists who all pointed out that, to
date, no link between SV40 and cancer had been discovered in humans.
"It seems to me that if danger were attached to SV-40, we would recognize it by
now," the AP quoted Dr. Michael B. Shimkin of the National Cancer Institute as
saying. Dr. Shimkin went on to say that "the public can be reassured" because
careful studies "have produced
no evidence whatsoever that during
the last seven years there has been an increase in leukemia or cancer which can be
attributed to SV-40."
Dr. Joseph L. Melnick of Baylor University in Texas agreed, saying that there had been
no link discovered, a claim echoed by Dr. Salk, according to the AP story. Even Dr. Eddy
"said this virus is not known to induce tumors in man or monkeys," the
report said.
By 1960, Horwin notes, the Salk injectable polio vaccine had been given to about
98 million American children and adults,
while Sabin's oral version had been given to about 10,000 Americans and tens of millions
of Soviet citizens, where trials had been conducted. "It was estimated that 10% to
30% of the vaccines contained live SV40," he wrote, noting that despite the link
discovered by Dr. Eddy, no federal agency and no new federal rules that regulated the
manufacture, sale and distribution of vaccines required makers of the polio vaccine to
"discard their SV40-contaminated poliovirus seeds which were the source for all
subsequent polio vaccines."
Subsequent federal testing of the vaccines, which occurred in the mid-1960s, were also
inadequate, Horwin notes, because "the fourteen-day SV40 tests were not long enough to detect the
virus." Yet in the years afterward, the incidence of pediatric cancer increased.
"Indeed, the pediatric cancer rate continued to climb through the 1960's, 70's, 80's
and 90's," he wrote.
That claim is backed by other research
as well.
"Whether childhood cancer
is becoming more common is a controversial question among scientists," writes Amy
D. Kyle, for EnviroHealthPolicy.net.
"Data from the cancer tracking systems in the US suggest that childhood cancer is increasing,"
she adds, noting a
graph which tracked the increase in pediatric cancer rates in the latter part of
the 20th century.
The American Childhood Cancer Association goes a step further, stating that according to
statistics, cancer
is the number one killer of children in the U.S.
In 2005 the National Network for Immunization Information published a somewhat conflicting
report
regarding a link between SV40 and increased cancer rates.
"Although SV40 has biological properties consistent with a cancer-causing virus, it
has not been conclusively established whether it has caused cancer in humans," said
the report. "Epidemiological studies of groups of people who received polio vaccine
during 1955-1963 do not show an increased cancer risk."
But later, the same report seems to contradict itself:
However, a number of studies have found SV40 in certain forms of cancer in humans, such
as mesotheliomas - rare tumors located in the lungs - brain and bone tumors; the virus has also
been found to be associated with some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
In 2002, the IOM's (Institute of Medicine) Immunization Safety Review Committee considered
that the available data was inadequate to conclude whether or not the contaminated polio
vaccine may have caused cancer. Because there is biological evidence supporting the
theory that SV40-contamination of polio vaccines could contribute to human cancers,the committee
recommended continued public health
attention in the form of policy analysis, communication, and targeted biological research.
A corresponding study by the National Academy of Sciences, conducted at the request of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was similarly "inconclusive." A
panel of medical and scientific experts charged with examining any potential link between
SV40 and increased cancer risk
concluded:
Available evidence is "inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between
SV40-containing polio vaccines and cancer;"
The "biological evidence is strong that SV40 is a transforming virus," one that
is capable of
"inducing malignant transformation of animal cells in culture;"
The "biological evidence is moderate that SV40 exposure could lead to cancer in
humans under natural
conditions;"
The "biological evidence is moderate that SV40 exposure from the polio vaccine
is related to SV40 infection in humans."
In the "Significance Assessment" portion of its conclusions, the panel's final
report said, "The committee concludes that concerns about exposure to SV40 through
inadvertent contamination of
polio vaccines are significant because of the seriousness of cancers as the possible
adverse health outcomes and because of the continuing need to ensure and protect public
trust in the nation's immunization
program."
While the panel did not recommend "a policy review of polio vaccine by any of the
national or federal vaccine advisory bodies" because the current polio vaccine is
free of SV40, it did recommend "development of sensitive and specific serological
tests" for the virus, as well as "development and use of ... standardized
techniques for SV40 detection.
In a July
15, 2001 report, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story detailing an increased
concern among researchers that the SV40 virus found in those early polio vaccines was
indeed responsible for higher cancer rates.
"For four decades, government
officials have insisted that there is no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful
to humans. But in recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a
steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone
and lung-related tumors - the same malignant cancer SV40 causes in lab animals," the report said.
"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."
Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., told the paper
he believed the virus was carcinogenic in humans.
"We need to be creating therapies for people who have these cancers, and now we may
be able to because we have a target - SV40," he said.
Others say the few government studies regarding the potential link have been flawed.
"The government has not sponsored any real research. Here's something possibly
affecting millions of Americans, and they're indifferent," Dr. Adi Gazdar, a
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cancer researcher, said. "Maybe they
don't want to find out."
Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National
Vaccine Information Center, a non-profit organization which advocates vaccine safety, testified
before the House Government Reform Committee's subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness
in September 2003 that
[T]oday, U.S. federal health agencies admit the following two facts: (1) Salk polio
vaccine released for public use between 1955 and 1963 was contaminated with SV40; and SV40
has been proven to cause cancer in animals.
Continuing, Fisher said that at a 1997 conference on SV40 and human cancers held by the
National Institutes of Health which she attended, "there was no disagreement among
both government and non-government scientists about these two facts.
The only disagreement was whether SV40 was actually being identified in the cancerous
tumors of children and adults alive today and, if it was, whether the monkey virus was in
fact responsible for their cancer. Non-government scientists working in independent labs
around the world said, 'Yes.' But the scientists connected with the U.S. government said
'No.'"
Fisher went on to say that "credentialed non-government scientists in multiple labs
around the world continue to identify SV40 in human brain and lung cancers of children and
adults and are finding that SV40 is also associated with bone cancers and Non-Hodgkin's
Lymphomas."
Despite ongoing denials, an increasing number of researchers continue to maintain that not
only is there a bona fide link between Salk's SV40-tainted vaccines and cancer, that
federal government officials and agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of such vaccines - then and now -
are loathe to admit it, perhaps because they fear the fallout in terms of lawsuits and
lost credibility.
But eventually there is likely to be enough evidence to force a change of heart, because
based on what's still being discovered about the link, the issue won't go away anytime
soon. (6.29.2011, J.D. Heyes) http://www.naturalnews.com/032854_SV40_polio_vaccines.html
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Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism,
their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." (Brock Chisholm - Director of the World Health Organization)
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to
believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a
reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police
State Dictatorship it's going to
get." (Ian Williams Goddard)
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