Epidemiology of Simian Polyomavirus SV40 in Different Areas of Russian Federation (RF)

DNA-containing polyomavirus SV40 was isolated in 1961 from poliovaccine prepared on kidney cell culture of M.mulatta naturally infected with this virus. Main part of poliovaccines (IPV and OPV) was contaminated with SV40. From 1955 till 1963 hundred millions of people in USA, Russia (USSR), and in some other countries were immunized with contaminated SV40 Salk and Sabin vaccine and a lot of people became carriers of SV40. This virus was detected also in some human tumors. Epidemiological researches were not carried out in Russia before 2009. By present time possibility and ways of SV40 excretion into environment and possibility of its horizontal spreading is established. From the beginning of 60s (in Russia a little bit later) vaccines were free from SV40 contamination. In this article the data about SV40 infection of population in Moscow, St. Petersburg, in some cities of the Black Sea coast of Caucasus, in Novosibirsk and in one area of Krasnoyarsk region are presented., Analysis of the source of SV40 people infection is performed.