The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers and Government Neglect

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[rear cover blurb] "...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. 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