Deaths related to the disorder are ranked fourth and fifth among all cancer
deaths in women and men, respectively. Although the reasons for the increase
in incidence are not fully understood, a substantial number of cases of
non-Hodgkin lymphoma are linked to the HIV-1 epidemic. Indeed, non-Hodgkin
lymphoma is a common malignancy in HIV-1-infected patients and the incidence
can be up to 300 times higher than in HIV-1-negative individuals.
No obvious risk factors have emerged for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the general
population, but a viral cause has been postulated. Some cases of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma in HIV-1-infected patients have been attributed to deficient immune
surveillance of oncogenic herpesviruses, such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), or perhaps to chronic antigenic stimulation
and defective immune regulation.
The small DNA-containing polio viruses (simian virus 40 [SV40], JC virus,
and BK virus) are known to infect human beings, to have cancer causing
potential, and to be associated with some human cancers. SV40 DNA sequences
have been found repeatedly in some brain and bone cancers and mesotheliomas.
Polio viruses are known to induce tumor formation in animals, including the
production of B-cell lymphomas by SV40. The major types of tumors induced by
SV40 in laboratory animals are the same as the human cancers found to
contain SV40 DNA, with the exception of lymphomas.
Studies have reported the detection of SV40 DNA sequences in non-Hodgkin
lymphoma from HIV-1-infected and HIV-1-uninfected patients.
These findings suggest a possible role for polio viruses in
lymphoproliferative disorders, but the small size of the study populations.
This study showed that polio virus SV40 T antigen DNA sequences are
significantly associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in HIV-1-infected and
HIV-1-uninfected patients. This finding sheds new light on the possible
cause of an important group of malignant disorders.
Overall, 42% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas tested here contained SV40 DNA
sequences -- a frequency similar to that found in an independent study
(43%).
The cancer causing potential of polio virus SV40 has been established in
laboratory animals. In studies in which hamsters were inoculated
intravenously with SV40, lymphomas developed among 72% of the animals in the
inoculated group and none of the control group.
Polio virus SV40 has been associated with specific types of solid cancers in
human beings, including brain tumors, osteosarcomas, and malignant
mesotheliomas. These are the types of malignant disorders caused by the
virus in laboratory animals -- a finding that emphasizes the predictive
value of the animal studies. Recent reports provide persuasive evidence that
the presence of polio virus SV40 is meaningful in the development of those
human cancers.
The major source of known human exposure to polio virus SV40 was
immunization with SV40-contaminated polio vaccines.
Inactivated and live, attenuated forms of the polio vaccine were prepared in
primary rhesus monkey kidney cells, some of which were from animals
naturally infected with SV40 -- a virus that was unknown at the time.
Studies showed that residual infectious SV40 survived the vaccine
inactivation treatments, and millions of people were inadvertently exposed
to live SV40 from 1955 until early 1963
In the USA, vaccine lots received by about 20 states are estimated to have
contained 0.75-0.97 mL contaminated vaccine per child, lots from about 15
states were thought to have contained 0.01-0.74 ml contaminated vaccine per
child, and about 15 states were believed to have received lots that were
free from SV40.
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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
This is not new information as I have posted this several years ago.
However, it was from a relatively obscure specialty journal.
However, now a major journal, Lancet, has published clear evidence that
contaminated polio vaccine is responsible for up to half of the 55,000
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases per year.
This should outrage nearly anyone that reads this. We trusted these experts
to provide us with protection from polio and instead they planted the seeds
of a deadly cancer that would kill over 20,000 a year in the US.
This is particularly troublesome as polio can be prevented in most people
simply by eliminating sugar from their diet.
If you were one of those who received the vaccine you can do something
positive to enhance your immune system. Increasing your amount of omega-3
fats and decreasing the omega-6 fats will be a potent step towards
suppressing these types of cancers.
Please be sure and read the articles below which goes into far more detail.
Related Articles:
Omega-3 is Essential to the Human Body
Omega-3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients
Omega-3 Fats Prevent Breast Cancer
(on his website: www.mercola.com)
SV40 Polio Vaccine - Deadly Cure?
http://www.viewzone.com/sv40.html by Geraldo Fuentes
Editor's Note:
When we first ran Geraldo's first story, SV-40, A Deadly Cure? we thought it was a bit
on the conspiratory side, but it seemed well researched. We were pleased that many
other journalists also investigated the material, proving the sad truth that Geraldo
reported in ViewZone.
Research has now firmly linked many of today's cancers with tainted virus vaccinations
given in the early 1950s. Could there be any more shocking and horrific revelations like
this? We didn't think so - but we were wrong.
The latest horror story is posted HERE: SV40 Part Two for you to ponder. As you
read it, also do not forget the Black Americans that were knowingly infected with
Syphilis or the soldiers made to march through the fallout of our nuclear bomb tests...
But first, read Geraldo Fuentes original story.
If you received a polio vaccination in the 50's,
you may have gotten more than you know...
It was 1956. I was only six years old and attended grade school
in Springfield, Massachusetts. I was too young to recollect the
first round of polio vaccinations, but I have a few memories. I
remember that my first grade class was escorted to the school
gymnasium. There was a peculiar smell in the air. I think it was
probably rubbing alcohol. And some of the other kids were crying.
The shot itself wasn't so bad. I didn't cry, but my best friend
did. At the end of the ordeal we all got a lollipop.
A few years later, when we marched again to the gymnasium it was
different. There was no crying and no alcohol odor. Instead,
there were long tables bearing neat rows of small paper cups,
filled about half way with a liquid that tasted like bitter
orange juice. White clad Nurses watched as each child drank the
vaccine. There was no lollipop and, after we handed back the cup,
we simply returned to class.
The government had initiated the mandatory polio vaccination
programs in 1955. Prior to this, polio had killed or crippled
thousands of children and adults all over the world. Attacking
the central nervous system, this viral infection was transmitted
by human contact, sewage and even by contaminated milk. Victims
who contracted polio would incubate the virus in their
intestines, where it would multiply and enter the lymphatic
system. Eventually the virus would penetrate the nerves and
travel along nerve paths, destroying neurons and rendering the
muscles connected to them paralyzed.
The polio epidemic reached its height in 1952. It turned
thousands of victims into cripples and confined countless
children to large pressure chambers called "iron lungs," which
helped them to breath when their diaphragm muscles were stilled.
There was and still is no treatment for polio. Aside from
attempts to maintain life functions, the disease must run its
course.
And so, in 1955, just one year before I received it, Jonas Salk
had performed no small miracle when he successfully mass-produced
an effective polio vaccine by growing a form of the virus on the
kidneys of rhesus monkeys. This virus would be harvested, killed,
and given to healthy children like me, who would then develop
antibodies which would kill any future invasion of the body by
the polio virus.
This happy story of medical marvel has a deadly glitch. And it is
especially deadly if, like me, you received your vaccinations in
the 1950s, in certain states like Massachusetts.
In 1960, researchers discovered that the polio vaccine
distributed to certain states was infected with another virus
called "Simian Virus 40." SV-40 is a monkey virus that is not
normally found in humans. Unknown at the time, it was present in
hundreds of rhesus monkeys that were used to grow and harvest the
polio vaccine. Injected into research animals, the SV-40 virus
causes brain and lung cancers. Now, some forty years later, its
effect on humans is just being investigated.
SV-40 has appeared in 61% of all new cancer
patients -- patients too young to have
received the contaminated vaccine being
administered forty years ago!
Michele Carbone, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Loyola
University in Chicago, has recently isolated fragments of the
SV-40 virus in human bone cancers and in a lethal form of lung
cancer called mesotheliomas. He found SV-40 in 33% of the
osteosarcoma bone cancers studied, in 40% of other bone cancers,
and in 60% of the mesotheliomas lung cancers. Dr. Carbone
believes this study explains why 50% of the current mesotheliomas
being treated were no longer occurring in association with
asbestos exposure, their traditional cause.
Researchers from the Institute of Histology and General
Embryology of the University of Ferrara, lead by Dr. Fernanda
Martini, discovered SV-40's presence in a variety other tumors.
They found the rhesus monkey virus in 83% of choriod plexus
papillomas, in 73% of ependymomas, in 47% of astrocytomas, in 50%
of glioblastomas, and in 14% of meningiomas.
SV-40 also has been found in 23% of blood samples and 45% of
sperm fluids taken from normal individuals! Researchers have
determined the SV-40 virus can be transmitted sexually and
through blood transfusions.
Even more shocking, SV-40 has appeared in 61% of all new cancer
patients -- patients even too young to have received the
contaminated vaccine being administered forty years ago! How
could this happen?
My second vaccination was from a cup. This was the brainstorm of
the FDA. Instead of getting the "dead" virus in an injection, the
Federal vaccination policy mandated that children should be given
the new live "oral polio vaccine" (OPV). This decision was based
upon the belief that the OPV recipient would "shed" the virus
through body contact with other non-vaccinated children and
adults, thereby spreading the "live" virus throughout the
population. Since the infection was extremely small, it would
produce the desired antibodies while posing no threat of
contracting polio. This, it was thought, would assure the total
immunization of America and the eradication of the disease. The
public was never informed that this national health strategy was
being implemented, despite several cases of polio which were
directly attributed to the vaccine.
By 1963, the estimated number of tainted
polio vaccinations was estimated to be
upwards of 98-million!
The SV-40 virus that contaminated the oral polio vaccine quickly
spread from child to child and from child to adult, crossing
state lines and national boundaries. By 1960, when the virus was
first detected, it was already too late to prevent its
dissemination throughout the population. The FDA quietly and
gradually instituted a program to eliminate rhesus monkeys, who
harbor the SV-40, and replace them with African Green monkeys
that are free of the virus. By 1963 the monkeys had been replaced
but the estimated number of tainted polio vaccinations was
estimated to be 98-million!
According to the National Institutes of Health, high
levels of SV-40 were identified in polio vaccines in
Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Minnesota, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington
DC, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Low
levels of SV-40 were found in California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Polio vaccines in
the other states show no SV-40 present.
This revelation has only recently come to public attention. Many
people, like myself, were unaware that a potential for cancer had
been implanted in their body. Researchers say that, by age
fifteen, the virus stops shedding to others. I cannot but wonder
how many people I contacted between the age of eight and
fifteen... Did I shed the SV-40 virus to my mother, who
eventually died of brain cancer? Will I contract brain, lung or
bone cancer? Many other people in my age group are asking similar
questions.
A number of public statements have been made by the National
Cancer Institute in the past few months, attempting to put their
spin on these disturbing revelations. In an statement published
in the January (1999) New England Journal of Medicine, the
institute states that there is no evidence of an increase in
humans of the types of cancers found in laboratory animals that
have been injected with SV-40. But other researchers remind us
that SV-40 has already been found in a wide variety of other
tumors. It has been shown that individuals who received the
tainted oral vaccine demonstrate a higher occurrence of these
cancers.
For example: people who lived in Massachusetts and
Illinois in the 1950s, and received identified lot
numbers of the contaminated oral vaccine, are now
contracting osteosarcoma bone tumors at a rate of ten
times more than those who received the vaccine free of
the SV-40.
But the National Cancer Institute has been silent about these
facts.
There needs to be more demographic studies to explore the
relationship of SV-40 to adult onset cancers. Not surprisingly,
the US government and its agencies are reluctant to pursue this
matter. In fact, requests to the National Institute for Health
for grants to study the SIV and simian cyto-megalovirus (SCMV)
were recently denied. Microbiologist Howard Urnovitz, Ph.D., may
have an explanation as he stated in the Boston Globe:
"that almost 100 million Americans were exposed (to
SV-40) through a government sponsored program, but for
over 30 years, there has been virtually no government
effort to see if anyone's been harmed by the exposure."
He added, "The government will not fund science that
makes it look culpable."
Another method used by the National Cancer Institute to divert
public concern is to issue statements that "many of the cancers
under suspicion were contracted by people who are too young to
have received the tainted vaccine in the 1950s." This argument,
although true, ignores the potential of spreading the live SV-40
by "shedding" through personal contact. The oral polio vaccine
was designed to be transmitted to non-vaccinated individuals by
this very method. In fact, this was the reason that OPV was
preferred over injection. If SV-40 is still being spread by
contact today it is not surprising that these cancers are now
affecting younger people.
Regardless of blame, severe damage to world health has already
been done by the unsavory practice of growing vaccination
products in animals. An example of these horrors was presented by
Dr. Urnovitz at the Eighth Annual Houston Conference on AIDS.
Dr. Urnovitz revealed significant evidence that human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is a monkey
hybrid virus which was produced when 320,000 Africans
were injected with polio virus contaminated with live
simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in the late 1950's.
Apparently, viral fragments combine easily with other viruses to
produce these hybrids called "chimeras." Prior to this
revelation, health officials were blaming AIDS on the habit of
certain Africans to consume monkey flesh.
What can be done now? "Make it in anything but animals," said
Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center,
which criticizes vaccine safety.
[Guess we're back to using aborted fetal tissue --never mind that
vaccines don't WORK and never have.]
"We have the technology to make vaccines in human cell lines that
are clean," said Dr. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical
Center, one of the first to discover SV-40 inside human tumors.
Until then we can only hope that researchers continue their work,
regardless of the repercussions. Millions of people are already
infected with SV-40 and are in danger. Many cancers do not
develop until mid-life. Future generations must be protected. We
must prohibit any future contamination of the world population,
whether for our own good or not, by well-meaning governmental
agencies.
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SV40, polio vaccine, and cancer: Now beyond coincidence?
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:28:56 -0700
SV40, polio vaccine, and cancer: Now beyond coincidence?
9 April 2002 10:40 EST
by Apoorva Mandavilli, BioMedNet News
BioMedNet News
and Comment SV40
San Francisco - At the American Association of Cancer Research meeting here
today, controversy continued to swirl around accusations that contaminated
polio vaccine stocks are to blame for certain cancers, based on the
publication a month ago of two high-profile papers linking the simian virus
SV40 to human lymphomas.
Less than a week after the papers were published in March, the US National
Cancer Institute contacted the researchers to establish plans to send blinded
results to three independent labs, lead researcher Adi Gazdar told BioMedNet
News today.
But Gazdar seems unconvinced of the NCI's intentions. "They just want to
prove us wrong," he said.
Gazdar and his colleagues scanned 99 lymphomas, 235 epithelial tumors and 40
control tissues for the virus. They found the virus in 43% of non-Hodgkin's
lymphomas, 9% of Hodgkin's lymphomas, and in none of the control tissues. A
second team independently found the virus in 42% of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas,
"almost unbelievable agreement," said Gazdar, who is professor of pathology
at the University of Texas Southwestern medical center.
"These are very respectable labs with basically identical results," said
Michele Carbone, associate professor of pathology at Loyola University in
Chicago. The "clear clustering of positives" is "no accident," he told
BioMedNet News.
This is not the first time scientists have linked SV40 to human cancers.
Researchers suggested for years that millions of vials of polio vaccine,
contaminated with SV40, infected individuals between 1953 and 1963 and caused
human tumors. Until recently, they were inevitably met with skepticism, even
contempt - and some NCI researchers published directly contradictory results.
In 1997, the US National Institutes of Health, with other organizations,
organized an international conference to review the SV40 literature and
address the possibility that the virus causes human tumors. At the meeting,
Carbone, presented his then-controversial data linking the virus to
mesotheliomas. (Since then, more than 30 independent reports have confirmed
his results).
After the meeting, Carbone says, a conscientious Chicago public health
official contacted Carbone and gave him the last remaining stocks of polio
vaccine from the 1950s. In her paper, Butel isolated a strain of SV40 from
three patients that closely matches the strain Carbone sequenced from the
polio vaccine vials.
The evidence proves Butel's results are no artifact, Carbone says. "You
cannot contaminate with something that doesn't exist," he said. "This thing
only exists in my freezer."
Since publication of their research in the Lancet last month, Gazdar and his
colleagues have been investigating rarer subtypes like leukemia and multiple
myelomas. The experiments have not been proceeding as fast as they would
like, Gazdar says, partly because "there's no government funding" for the
research. "The lymphoma story might force them to [fund it]."
An important next step, Gazdar says, is to prove that the SV40 virus causes
lymphomas and isn't just a "passenger" in the cells. That is no easy task,
since researchers have only been able to isolate the virus in rare instances.
For the most part, they believe, the virus launches a "hit-and-run" attack,
initiating a cascade of tumorigenic events before it is destroyed by the body.
Still, it is critical that this research continue, Gazdar says, because
molecular and immunologic data suggest those born after 1963 have also been
exposed to the virus, via horizontal or vertical transmission, or through
sexual contact.
The rates of mesotheliomas, lymphomas and brain tumors have also all gone up
"dramatically" in the last 30 years. "Coincidence or not, we have to find
out," he said. "It's something to think about."
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