by Hilary Butler
Vaccine researchers and boffins were truly baffled in 1994
when Father Chamberlain of Ampleforth College in York, England, and Moslems
protested that they did not want to use a vaccine made from aborted foetal
tissue.
Truly baffled, because authorities not only believe that “human
diploid tissue”, as they call it, is the medium of choice, knew WHY they
preferred to use it. But they were
caught in a dilemma. Scientists couldn’t very well tell the public why human
diploid culture, (or aborted foetal tissue) was preferable without discussing
what was wrong with animal cultures. And to do THAT would reveal some rather
unpleasant surprises. Rather than put the cat amongst the pigeons by discussing
the issues they firstly denied that the rubella vaccine was made from aborted
foetal tissue.
However, when confronted with their own evidence, they
tried to silenc the renegades by insisting that if these detractors did not
have the MMR, they would be responsible for epidemics/ disabilities and deaths.
Before looking at the issue of aborted foetal tissue and
its current place in the medical world, let’s look at WHY the person who
developed it calls it ‘the heart of the emerging biotechnology industry”.
[Science. Vol 257, 21 August 1992. Pg 1027.]
As far back as 1964, concern was expressed regarding the
cultures for oral polio vaccine. Quite apart from Bernice Eddy’s discovery of
SV40 (Simian Virus No 40), evidence from Canada put concerns in a very clinical
manner:
“...enzyme inhibitors and other activators, or other
biocatalysts (protease!) of tissue culture origin may remain present in an
active state in some batches of commercially prepared vaccine. The practical , significance
of,similar findings is unknown as yet This is only to illustrate the scarcity
of our knowledge of biological agents, in mass production and application. “
(protease are enzymes that break down the peptide [bonds that form amino acids
into proteins)
Just say YOU, the reader, had an oral polio vaccine in
your younger days.
Here is what the manufacturers insert reads:
2,”..is a mixture of three types of attenuated polio viruses
which have been
propagated in Cercopithecus monkey kidney cell culture. The
cells are grown
in the presence of Eagles basal medium consist;ting of Earle’s
balanced salt
solution containing amino acids, antibiotics and CALF SERUM.
After cell
growth the medium is removed and replaced with fresh medium
containing the
inoculating virus but no calf serum T/The final vaccine is
diluted with a
modified cell culture maintenance medium containing sorbitol
If you lived in America in 1971 your rubella vaccine may
well have been cultured in:
3 Canine (dog) kidney or duck embryo tissue Or if you
lived in Japan in 1990: 4 The measles and mumps components were produced in
chick embryo culture and the rubella component was produced in primary rabbit
kidney cell cultures.
Diphtheria toxins are prepared in:
“...very complex media of meat extracts and peptone.”5(peptone
- secondary protein formed by action of enzymes on protein)
which has a problem of
“The secretion of many non-toxic (accessory) antigens
during prolonged incubation .. (which) may cause allergic reactions (antigens -
soluble substances that cause the body to produce an immune response)
“prepared by the digestion of beef muscle and liver’ ‘The
medium most
commonly used at present contains an enzyme digest of casein
and beef heart
infusion” 5b
‘Most (diphtheria) vaccines are impure mixtures of formaldehyde-inactivated
diphtheria toxin with -50% antigenically active toxoid& the rest contains other
proteins .from culture fluids .... The US Food and Drug Administration does not
have specific requirements for the purity of toxoid for childhood vaccines, but
requires vaccines for adults to be >50 %pure toxoid “. [Journ. Inf Dis: 1995; 171: 765-7]
“A combined D T vaccine contains a large number of
antigens, ie. the two toxoids and the remaining impurities, and in such a
vaccine, aluminium may no longer be a major cause of side-effects.
Note the “large number of antigens”. The wording also
suggests that aluminium has been superseded by this large number of remaining
impurities as a major cause of side-effects.
And in quote 5 a, note the words “ACCESSORY antigens”:
Accessory means
“unwanted” or contaminants. - The word they might use now is
“adventitious”
- As to the “antigens” - it is not stated what they are,
unlike an American
ROTAVIRUS (virus having a wheel-like appearance which causes
gastro-enteritis and diarrhoea) vaccine trialled in
Venezuela which
“unfortunately caused rises of transaminase activities in
human
·
volunteers.” 6 This particular virus strain was found
to be contaminated with a simian (monkey) foamy virus derived from the tissue
culture cells used.
Transaminase activity is where a class of enzyme (protease)
converts an
amino acid into a 2-keto acid. In other words, the monkey
virus caused this
- whereupon the authors go to great length to say they don’t
think the foamy
virus did it, but that they don’t really know - except that “unfortunately”
indicates that they didn’t like what they saw! -
Two other cultures for rota virus vaccines are mentioned
in this article - calf rota virus and rhesus rota virus.
In NZ prior to MMR, we used an English measles vaccine
called Rimevax. Here is its derivation:
7 Number of times passaged.
x 24 in
human kidney cultures.
x 28 in
human amnion
x 06 in egg
amnion
x l3 in
chick embryo cells = ---->>>>>>>Mevilin
x 85 in
chick embryo cells =
---->>>>>>>Rimevax
So we have here human amnion/ kidney cultures.
Where do they come from?
And eggs/ chickens, well that may be different, but is it
better?
Did you know that if you have a ‘flu vaccine you are being
injected with dead avian leukosis viruses?
8 “Even in highly developed countries no attempt has been
made to eliminate the use of avian leukosis containing hen’s eggs in the large-
scale production of inactivated influenza vaccine because there is no perceived
safety issue, especially since avian leukosis is killed along with the influenza
virus before being administered to humans in the form of a vaccine.”
Leukosis viruses are more correctly called leukosis
sarcoma viruses which
cause many kinds of cancer* in chickens and is
transmissible.*
(The question I’ve never got an answer to is: does the
body produce antibodies to the hen’s leukosis virus? - Pharmaceutical
manufacturers would probably say “yes” and charge more for the generous
provision of extra protection!!)
Contrary to NZ Government SV40 enquiry (and the general
standard
‘say-nothing line’ on vaccines), there have been many many
contaminants in
vaccines*. I have mentioned less than 0.1 % of them. How
many of you are
aware that children who received SV40 contaminated vaccines
developed four
times more melanomas than those who didn’t?9
Or that SV40 has been found in brain tumours in people who
received this vaccine. [Oncology July 1995.]
(Could this help explain why NZ has one of the highest
rates of certain cancers in the world?*)
In the early 1980’s the NZ Government enquiry on SV40
contaminated polio vaccine* marginalised the issue stating that it was not a
contaminant, since it occurred naturally in the monkeys - and the levels of
contamination were insignificant/ not dangerous (etc). This is not so.
It was only in 1988 after Keerti Shah’s presentation on
SV40 at a conference on cell lines that a French scientist stood up and said
that they had taken 1950’s vaccines and retested them and found that many vials
had more SV40 than polio virus.
Since then, research has implicated SV40 as the viral
factor in Asbestos cancers*. What will they discover next?
Remember too that the large number of REAL problems with
the smallpox vaccines were only even tentatively alluded to following it’s
WORLD-WIDE discontinuation, and are still not generally acknowledged.
However if you really want to get depressed about vaccine
contaminants, the medical literature can fulfill all your expectations and more
- if you KNOW where to look!
This is WHY human diploid cells are seen as an ideal
vaccine culture medium by some, and the “heart of emerging biotechnology
industry”* - because any “contaminants” are ‘safer’.
Polio, rubella, measles, adenovirus, and more recently
rabies and Hepatitis A (Havrix) vaccines are now made by some companies on
human diploid cells”. (Read aborted
foetal cells). There was medical opposition in the 60’s...
‘12”The major reason for the initial resistance to change
to diploid cells
was.,
1.The possibility they contained a hypothetical human
cancer virus or some other latent virus.
2.The possibility that they would spontaneously transform
(change from
normal to cancerous,),
3. When compared
to commonly used primary monkey kidney cells known to
contain many latent viruses (some of which killed several
workers), “The
devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.”and
4-Vaccines are licensed, not cell substrates.’
Interestingly, as we read all this information on human
diploid cells and other cell lines (murine (mouse), armadillo, monkey, cow,
etc.) we find researchers saying things like:
“It would seem reasonable to say that any rodent virus
which is recorded in the literature as having been found to replicate in human
or monkey cell# cultures would also be considered as undesirable... and will
also increase our list of undesirable pathogens by at least another ten viruses.”
Does this mean that the now small number of remaining
viruses pose no threat to humans?
Unfortunately we cannot even be sure of that, because many
of them have not been tested extensively for replication in human cells.
Prior to the advent of rodent monoclonals, there was no
need to know this
type of information.*
13 (Monoc=lonal antibodies produced in rats and mice
injected into cancer patients for tumour diagnosis).
Monoclonal an;antibodies are made by fusing an antibody
with a cancer cell from bone marrow, and is therefore capable of producing a
continuous supply of identical antibodies.
When you put these viruses into cancer patients, what
happens? (No-one knows).
What we D0 know is that cancer patients excrete massive
quantities of viruses into the environment* anyway.
The fact is that WHEN researchers take the trouble to look
for the unexpected, that is exactly what they find. My concern is that clearly
they donot look often enough, but when they do:
14”The problem of pestiviruses in cell cultures and in
fetal bovine serum has long been a recognised problem not only in laboratories
but also among leading vaccine manufacturers.”
“Detection of pestivirus contamination in viral vaccine
has been hampered because most (99%) of the pestivirus strains are non
cytopathic cell cultures”’(Non-cytopathic do not damage or cause changes in
cells. Vaccine manufacturers assume that if the cells stay normal there are no
viral contaminants.)
Pestivirus in MMR vaccines and two monovalent Mumps/
Rubella vaccines from licensed manufacturers. (Pestivirus is a mucosal disease
virus from the family of Togaviridae.)
But the REAL issue is that PESTIVIRUSES (which have caused
problems in vet vaccines) were only found WHEN they were seriously looked
for.* WHY hadn’t the manufacturers
detected them with all their ‘fancy testing?
Because manufacturers only institute testing when a
problem is revealed
which could threaten their financial security.*
This vaccine was made on primary chick cell culture,*
primary rabbit kidney cell culture* with all cultures supplemented with foetal
bovine serum.* (This is a very common routine practice in the manufacture not
only of vaccines, but also of other ‘biologicals’).
Way back in 1968 when a 600 page monograph was published
detailing all the then-known contaminants of human vaccines,* alarm bells
started to ring in some scientists heads.
Nevertheless it stayed private knowledge* (in order not to upset the use
of vaccines).
This was one of the reasons for the development of WI 38*
(Wistar Institute 38), human diploid cell-culture from aborted foetal cells.
The Roman Catholics and Moslems took their stand as a
moral issue, but aside from this very valid viewpoint, there is another even
more vital one which comes back to the question regarding man’s omnipotence/
infallibility, and the ever growing numbers of medical skeletons that the public
never ever ever gets to know about.
The ultimate question parents have to answer is:
Do I want this stuff injected into any member of my
family?”
1.”The Biochemistry of Polio myelitis V’=”, Ernest Kovacs
Univ. Toronto-Pergamon Press 1964.
2.Lederle’s Orimune Oral Polio Vaccine.
3.J. Immunology Vol 107, No , Sept. 197 1. Pg 8 1 0.
4.AJDC. S Makino
et al. Vol 144, August 1990. Pg 905.
5a “New Developments with Human Veterinary vaccines. 1980.
Pg 53 5 a. Pg 54
5b- Pg 57
5c. Acta Pediatr. 83 91194). Pg 162.
6.Archives of Disease in Childhood 1986,61,211-212.
7.BMJ. Volume 292,
19 April 1986- Pg 1044.
8. “Changing attitudes and Actions Governing the use of
continuous cell lines for the production of Biologicals”. John C- Petricciani
WHO. 1988.
9.SV40 like viruses and Human Tumours. Pg 350. E. Geissler
et al. ‘in “Viruses in Naturally occurring cancers, “ Book A, Vol. 7. 1980.
1 0. May 26-29, 1988. “Continuous Cell lines as Substrates
for Biologicals” Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Dept. of Health and Human Services. Discussion following Abstract No 6.
II-New Scientist. Pg 4, 21 May 1994.
12.Abstract No. 2. See Ref IO.
13.Ref I 0. Abstract No- 1 7. P. Carthew UK. Med Res.
Council Toxicology Unit.
14.1. Clin Microbiology, June 1994, Vol. 132, No 6.
--- In Vaccinations@y..., “Annette”
<annette@r...> wrote:
New documents show the monkey virus is present in more
recent polio vaccine
William Carlsen, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, July 22,
2001 ©2001 San
Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/22MN173141.DTL (URL wraps - copy tail, paste at end in
browser window)
A monkey virus linked to human cancers may have
contaminated the oral polio vaccine for years after the U.S. government ordered
manufacturers to remove it, according to drug company documents obtained by The
Chronicle.
The Chronicle reported last week that the simian virus
SV40 had contaminated early polio vaccine given to millions of Americans. When
health officials discovered in 1961 that SV40 caused malignant tumors in lab
animals, they ordered the virus eliminated from all future vaccine.
But internal memos from Lederle Laboratories, the chief
producer of polio vaccine in the United States, indicate SV40 may not have been
completely removed.
According to one memo, SV40 was found in three of 15 lots
of the oral vaccine seven months after the federal directive was issued in
March 1961. Lederle released the
contaminated vaccine to the public anyway, the memo shows.
The documents also suggest that the company failed to test
the monkey-kidney seed strains used to make the bulk polio vaccine for
contamination, despite a written warning from Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed
the oral vaccine.
Lederle and the U.S. government insist there is no
evidence that any contaminated vaccine was distributed after the directive went
into effect.
Scientists discovered SV40 in the Salk polio vaccine in
1960. By then as many as 30 million Americans had been given injections of the
SV40-tainted polio vaccine, which was first licensed in 1955.
In recent years more than 60 scientific studies have found
SV40 in rare human brain, bone and lung-related cancers, the same kinds of
tumors the virus caused in laboratory animals. Some scientists believe SV40 may
play a role in causing those cancers.
One of the biggest mysteries, however, is why SV40 has
been found in tumors removed from people who never received the contaminated
Salk vaccine.
Researchers have several theories for how the virus could
have spread from those infected through the Salk vaccine: in transmission from
mother to fetus or through breast milk; through sexual activity or a flu-like
virus.
But the Lederle documents, which were obtained by
Philadelphia attorney Stanley Kops in litigation not related to SV40, raise the
possibility the virus might have been transmitted by contaminated oral vaccine,
licensed for production in 1962.
The documents include:
·
A November 1961 memo saying the virus was found in
three of 15 lots of vaccine. According to the memo, Dr. Roderick Murray, head
of the government’s program to ensure vaccine purity, allowed the lots to be released.
To comply with the removal order, Lederle had switched from
rhesus monkeys, which are natural hosts for SV40, to African green monkeys,
supposedly free from SV40. However, the memo notes that SV40 was found in 10
percent of the green monkeys.
·
A letter from Sabin to Lederle in October 1962, warning
that sufficient testing for SV40 contamination had not been done on one of his
strains of weakened polio virus that formed the seed for bulk vaccine
production.
·
A confidential memo in 1979 from a Lederle official
stating: “It should be noted that Lederle did not test the original Sabin seeds
for extraneous agents or neurovirulence since Dr. Sabin assured us that this
had been done.”
·
Another memo stating that Lederle did not test the seed
“since only 50 (milliliters) or less of each seed were provided by Dr. Sabin.”
The two memos added that testing was unnecessary because
later vaccine samples submitted for license were free of SV40.
Kops also said that he had taken testimony in 1998 from a top
Lederle official who said the company did not have the test results from many
of the vaccine lots.
“The vaccine manufacturers and the government need to
disclose what really happened,” said Kops. “Without the facts, (scientists)
will continue to look in the wrong places to explain how people were infected
with SV40 after 1961.”
Lederle did not respond to requests for comment.
At a 1997 conference, however, a company representative
outlined the series of tests the company uses to detect SV40 contamination. The
company also says that it uses antiserum to neutralize any SV40 in the “master
seeds.”
But it is not clear whether these procedures were in place
in the years after the U.S. government issued its directive.
Last year, a lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles against
Lederle by the parents
of 2 ½-year-old Alexander Horwin who died of a brain tumor
that later
tested positive for SV40. The suit claims that the tumor was
caused by SV40
and that he became infected through a 1997 oral polio
vaccine.
http://www.whale.to/horwin.html
Kops and attorney Donald MacLachlin represent a New Jersey
family that is considering a suit against vaccine manufacturers.
In 1970, surgeons removed a large brain tumor from 2-year-old
Mark Moreno. He since has undergone
five more surgeries and now wears a protective helmet over the large opening in
his cranium where bone grafts never took. Moreno, now 33, lives with his mother
and requires daily assistance.
Recent tests show Moreno’s tumor was riddled with SV40,
according to the lawyers.
Eileen Moreno, Mark’s mother, believes her son’s brain
tumor was caused by SV40 and that he was infected through the oral polio
vaccine in 1968.
Last year, two investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration used genetic testing to examine 30 samples of bulk oral polio
vaccine used in the United States going back to 1972. They reported finding no
SV40.
But the government has not used the genetic tests to
determine whether vaccine made prior to 1972 was contaminated.
Dr. William Egan, deputy director of the FDA’s vaccine
research branch, said testing went back only to 1972 because those samples were
the only ones available to them. “There was nothing sinister,” he said.
MacLachlin said he finds it “incredible” that the
government hasn’t comprehensively investigated the possibility of SV40
contamination of the oral vaccine.
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--- ---- Simian virus Q&A Q: How widespread is the
SV40 infection? A:
Scientists and government health officials don’t know,
because no comprehensive studies have addressed the question. What is known is
that during the 1950s and ‘60s, at least 10 million to 30 million Americans— and
more than 100 million people worldwide—were given SV40-contaminated polio
vaccine. The virus also has been found in people who did not receive contaminated
vaccine.
A: An accurate blood test does not exist. Current antibody
blood tests can be inaccurate, scientists say, because they also may detect the
presence of closely related viruses, and SV40 may be present at such a low
level that no antibodies are produced. Researchers are working to create an
effective test.
A: The virus has been detected in rare cancers, including:
·
Mesothelioma, a fatal tumor of the membrane surrounding
the lungs. Few cases were reported prior to 1950, but the incidence has grown
in the United States to 2,000 to 4,000 cases a year, with greater incidence in
Europe.
·
Brain cancers: Primarily ependymomas and choroid plexus
tumors, but also astrocytomas, glioblastomas, medulloblastoma, and meningiomas.
Fewer than 1, 000 cases of these cancers are reported in the United States each
year.
·
Bone cancers: Primarily osteosarcomas, but also
chondrosarcoma and giant cell tumors. These also make up fewer than 1,000 cases
annually.
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