On mad cows and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in vaccines....

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On " mad cows " and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in

vaccines....

 

by Sandy Mintz

 

Now that " mad cows " are once again in the news, the question on everyone's mind

seems to be whether or not ingestion of an infected cow will result in the human

form of mad cow disease, vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). What isn't

on many people's minds, or widely known, but probably should be, is the fact

that vaccine cell cultures, the media in which vaccines are necessarily grown,

are rife with animal diseases.

 

Given that fetal and other bovine sera are routinely used in the production of

vaccines, among the many diseases long known to contaminate vaccines have been

those derived from cows. The fact that vaccines are usually injected as opposed

to ingested raises alarming possibilities, although the significance of the

route of transmission remains to be seen, as does the possible harm from use of

products containing such contaminated animal cell cultures.

 

Our experience with the monkey virus SV40 should be particularly instructive,

especially given our recently acquired understanding of the difficulties

involved in clearly establishing the facts.

 

When SV40, a known hamster carcinogen, was discovered in the polio vaccine,

rather than recall any remaining lots and risk undermining public confidence in

vaccines, the " experts " in charge of ensuring vaccine safety decided to allow

all existing stocks to be used. While an iron-clad connection between SV40 and

human cancers has not been made, evidence continues to mount that this decision

was misguided at best.

 

Should we be worried about animal contamination of vaccinations, and, in

particular, bovine viruses? The inexcusable truth is that we don't know. As we

now understand because of our experience with SV40, animal diseases can be

transmitted to humans. What kind of trouble such animal diseases are causing

humans, even in the much-studied case of SV40, remains to be ultimately

determined. As noted in an article on bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV)

contaminating hepatitis C virus vaccines (HCV), however, " In conclusion, most

commercially available bovine sera are contaminated with BVDV and, although

there is no evidence that the virus is infectious, bovine sera should be

screened for this virus. .. "

 

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We simply do not know if

the virus can infect humans. Shouldn't we know that?

 

Animal diseases continue to contaminate vaccines. Given that SV40 may be

causing cancer in humans, and other animal diseases may be wreaking havoc as

well, it is imperative that these contaminants be eliminated from vaccine

cell-cultures, notwithstanding the difficulty in doing so. And in order to

truly understand the risks vs. the benefits of vaccination, the consequences,

past and present, of having allowed animal contaminants to populate our vaccines

needs to be thoroughly investigated and factored into any vaccine benefit/risk

equation.

 

Sandy Mintz

 

" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884),

paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

Sandy Mintz is the publisher of the website " Vaccination News " , and writer of

the columns " Scandals " and " Out of Control " . To join her political action

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