HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT SV40?
- Mark Playne

- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 22, 2021
SV40 stands for Simian Virus 40.
This was probably the greatest medical scandal in the world, until today.
I researched into this many years ago and even heard the voice tape recordings of the scientists involved.
(This is not my article. It is reproduced from the SV40 Cancer Foundation.)
SV40 was the 40th virus found in rhesus monkey kidney cells when these cells were used to make the polio vaccine. This virus contaminated both the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) created by Dr. Jonas Salk and the Oral or "Live" Polio Vaccine (OPV) created by Dr. Albert Sabin.
Children being fed sugar cubes with the oral polio vaccine. Circa 1961.
In 1961, SV40 was discovered by Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institute of Health, Division of Biologics when she took the material used to grow polio vaccines and injected it into hamsters. Tumors grew in the hamsters.
Her discovery was subsequently validated by Drs. Maurice Hilliman and Benjamin Sweet of Merck.
Upon the discovery that SV40 was an animal carcinogen that had found its way into the polio vaccines, a new federal law was passed in 1961 that required that no vaccines contain this virus. However, this law did not require that SV40 contaminated vaccines be thrown away or that the contaminated seed material (used to make all polio vaccines for the next four decades) be discarded.
As a result, known SV40 contaminated vaccines were injected into children up until 1963. In addition, it has been alleged that there have been SV40-contaminated batches of oral polio vaccine administered to some children until the end of the 1990's.

Children being fed sugar cubes with the oral polio vaccine. Circa 1961.
The Creation of the Oral Polio Vaccine
Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
Type I has the following lineage:
• In 1941, Drs. Francis and Mack isolated the Mahoney poliovirus “from the pooled feces of three healthy children in Cleveland.” Dr. Salk then subjected the strain to passages through fourteen living monkeys and two cultures of monkey testicular cultures.
• In 1954, the strain (now called Monk14 T2) was given to Drs. Li and Schaeffer who subjected the virus to nine more passages through monkey testicular cultures.
• Next, the strain (now called Monk14 T11) underwent fifteen more passages in monkey testicular cultures, eighteen passages in monkey kidney cells, two passages through the skin of living rhesus monkeys, and additional passages through African Green monkey skin and monkey kidney cell cultures. This strain was now called MS10 T43 or LS-c.
SV40 colored transmission electron micrograph.
• In 1956, Dr. Sabin took this virus and passaged it through seven cultures of African Green Monkey kidney cells.
• That same year, the pharmaceutical company, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, passed the strain (now called LS-c, 2ab/KP2) through a rhesus monkey kidney cell culture.
• The resulting material was called Sabin Original Merck (SOM) and was provided to Lederle in 1960 as the seed material to manufacture its polio vaccine.
Types II and III were created in a similar fashion.

SV40 colored transmission electron micrograph.

Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
Much information about SV40 that was readily available 5 or more years ago, has been wiped from the internet, so dig deep.
Read more here
SOURCE: https://sv40.org/






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