[Viral contamination of polio vaccines in context of antivaccination mythology]

Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 2010 Nov-Dec:(6):104-12.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Analysis of publications about real and suggested contamination of polio vaccines produced in 1950s and 1960s with simian viruses--SV40 and SIV--is performed. Factual data are discussed and antivaccination fictions about calamitous consequences of really occurred contamination with SV40 and concocted contamination with SIV are refuted.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • DNA, Viral / analysis
  • Drug Contamination*
  • Humans
  • Mass Vaccination / adverse effects
  • Poliovirus Vaccines / adverse effects*
  • Polyomavirus Infections / virology
  • Simian virus 40 / genetics
  • Simian virus 40 / immunology
  • Simian virus 40 / isolation & purification*
  • Tumor Virus Infections / virology

Substances

  • DNA, Viral
  • Poliovirus Vaccines