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"...Between 1954 and 1963, 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40. The government downplayed the incident, and it was generally accepted that although oncogenic to lab animals, SV40 was harmless to humans. But SV40 is showing up in human cancers today, and prominent researchers are demanding a serious public health response to this forgotten polio vaccine contaminant. In a page-turner in the tradition of 'The Hot Zone', this meticulously researched and powerfully written book takes readers on a side-by-side journey with some of today’s most prominent cancer researchers and raises major questions about vaccine policy...."
"...But why mesotheliomas? With so many different cells and organs to choose from, why was SV40 turning up so frequently in this relatively rare cancer? Carbone reviewed the literature on the virus. He discovered that most studies of SV40’s behavior in human cells had examined what happened when the virus invaded fibroblasts, specialized connective tissue cells. This was because large amounts of the tissue type were readily available to research laboratories in the form of human foreskin specimens. Mesothelial cells, however, are dramatically different from fibroblasts. ..." --Chapter 16 - The Perfect War Machine.
Author(s): BOOKCHIN, Debbie & SCHUMACHER, Jim
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
City: New York
Tags: African green monkey, cancers, Michele Carbone, Chemor of Constantinople, democide, FDA, Flexner Report, germ theory, Maurice Hilleman, iatrogenic, inoculation of diseases, John Lednicky, Marburg virus, mesothelioma, NCI, Pasteur, PCR, Charles Pfizer, polio, regulatory capture, rhesus, Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk, serum, SV40, T-antigen, vaccine, vacuolating
The Virus and the Vaccine - Front Cover
Half-title
Title Page
Printer's Imprint
Dedication
CONTENTS
Question to Dr Jonas Salk, CBS TV, February 22, 1955
Introduction
Half-title (2)
1. The Paralyzed President
2. A Nation at War with Polio
3. A Young Man from Pittsburgh
4. The Vaccine that Opened Pandora’s Box
5. Triumph and Disaster
6. Does Anyone Know What’s in This Vaccine?
7. The Virus Discovered
8. “We Were Scared of SV40”
9. “The Worst Thing in the World”
10. Why Not a Safer Vaccine?
11. Everyone Knows SV40 Doesn’t Cause Cancer
12. “A Wild-Assed Idea”
13. Don’t Inflame the Public
14. A Call to Turn Aside the Dogma
15. On the Scientific Map
16. The Perfect War Machine
17. A Study Marred by Strife
18. Wasted Time, Wasted Money
19. No Funding, No Research
20. Alexander’s Tumor
Conclusion
Notes and Sources
A Note on Sources
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Conclusion
Appendix A: Association of SV40 with Human Disease
Appendix B: Correspondence Eddy - Smadel - Murray (chapters 6 and 7)
Appendix C: Discovery of SV40 in Salk’s and Sabin’s Vaccines (chapters 8 and 9)
Appendix D: Multi-Laboratory Study and Carbone-Pass RAID Grant (chapters 17 and 18)
Acknowledgments
Index
Rear Cover
