Absence of antibodies to HTLV-III in health workers after hepatitis B vaccination. “A proportion of the plasma for the triply inactivated, plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine produced in the United States is obtained from homosexual men. Because homosexual men are a high-risk group for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), concern has emerged that the vaccine could […]
Adventitious agents in viral vaccines: Lessons learned from 4 case studies “The four cases are: a) SV40 in polio vaccines; b) bacteriophage in measles and polio vaccines; c) reverse transcriptase in measles and mumps vaccines; and d) porcine circovirus and porcine circovirus DNA sequences in rotavirus vaccines.” #Contamination #SV40 #Polio #Vaccine #Rotavirus #Measles #MMR #MedScienceResearch […]
Activation of metastatic potential in African green monkey kidney cell lines by prolonged in vitro culture. “Their malignant tumor growth was further demonstrated around the 500 passage level when tumor metastases were detected in the lungs of four of the 14 inoculated rats. Vero cells induced such lung metastases in rats already at passage 227.” […]
