Were some CJD victims infected by vaccines?
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Some oral poliovirus vaccines were contaminated with infectious SV40 after 1961.
Some polio vaccines prepared from 1954 to 1961 were contaminated with infectious SV40. It has been assumed that all polio vaccines were SV40 free in the United States after 1961 and in other countries after 1962. Following a WHO requirement that was prompted by the detection of SV40 in some human tumors, we conducted a multilaboratory study to test for SV40 polio vaccines prepared after 1961. V...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/35040718