Every vaccine in the marketplace today needs to be rigorously screened for the presence of adventitious biologic recombinants.

Are we inadvertently transfecting ourselves with non-human DNA with every jab? How certain are we that cancer is less a problem with gene mutation than it is a problem with gene transfer between species, e.g. SV-40?

With the stupendous number of vaccines in the current pediatric and adult vaccination schedules, and hundreds more in the pipeline, has some of our DNA inadvertently become human-animal chimeras (hybrids)?

This is certainly not the first time that the risk of uncertain biologic recombinants has been raised. Is anyone listening?

"The truth that vaccine policy is not about science or safety but about money and politics is finally seeing the light of day." K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, on January 13th, 2009.

"The history of vaccine in littered with horrible mistakes and skulduggery - from the SV40 virus given to millions in the polio vaccine to the continued use of mercury and other heavy metals. The fact is even the best MMR vaccine is contaminated with avian retro virus and reverse transcriptase. This is criminal!" K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, on January 13th, 2009.

Just in case there is anyone at this website who has not yet seen this, here’s the link to a series of video clips titled

“Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer. AIDS/HIV/Virus Information.”

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message470057/pg1

Business as usual....

In an April 14 advisory, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited findings by the manufacturer and other regulatory agencies that the virus does not pose any public health risk. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/188485/rp-fda-no-need-for-ban-on-rotarix-vaccine

I wonder WHAT it would take for them do say “wait a minute, maybe better not give THIS to babies”. Maybe seeing green aliens dancing under the microscope? Or not? After all there is no proof that dancing aliens pose public health risk! Only a speculation on the part of anti-alien nutters.

Just as a side note, European Health Agency has looked into this and decided, without going into details, that this contamination of rotavirus vaccine poses no risk to human health and that there is no reason to pull it off the market. Nothing to do with GSK influence in Europe one might guess...

Perhaps the most interesting thing (or most frightening) is one of the comments on the virology blog asking a very pertinent question: What about the other 60% of what they found? The question seems to assert that the pig virus was 40% of what they found that was unexpected, but the other 60% was other DNA stuff that wasn't in the Genome project database to which the researchers compared their findings. Other stuff was there but since nobody ever identified it before nobody knows what it is? Incomplete fragments or whole? File it under miscellaneous?

Garbo, thank you for that link.

It does not surprise me that there is little discussion about HERK, given that even the paper you linked to parrots the old lie about there being no link between SV40 and human cancers. (Did no one at this journal read about Michele Carbone's work?) I guess it is not in the interest of the vaccine program to make people nervous about contaminants.

This is likely just the tip of the iceberg...

The whole journal article is here:
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/JVI.02690-09v1

A couple of questions I have:
First, there seems to be little discussion of the fact that they also found HERK (human endogenous retrovirus K) in the MMRII and Varivax vaccines. Here's a discussion of HERK re: possible activity in cancers:

http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/79/19/12507

Second is the differentiation between the PCV1 and PCV2 viruses. They've been careful to state that what they found was PCV1 which they assume to be non-infectious to humans, and in table 1 they list what they found by PCR to be PCV1, but in table 2 they list what they found in Rotarix via Pan Microbial Microarray as PCV2. Is this a typo mistake? Or did they find BOTH types of porcine circovirus, PCV1 AND PCV2, each one using a different technique?

jen, that's my feeling--GROSS. Even though most of the public doesn't understand the specifics of all this, I hope "GROSS" is the take home message. It might get them to start second guessing.

Personally, I always thought an oral, live virus diarrhea vaccine was gross in itself.

From the virology blog: "Significant levels of porcine cirovirus 1 were found in Rotarix. The entire viral genome sequence was deduced from 6344 sequence reads, comprising over 40% of the reads done for that vaccine. Over 100,000 porcine circovirus 1 DNA molecules were detected in each vaccine dose, fully 10 times higher than the amount of rotavirus present. However, it’s not known if the porcine circovirus present is infectious."

It's my understanding that the rotarix contamination was much more severe than the others, either in the amount of the viral DNA found or in the completeness of that DNA vs. "fragments" found in the others.

FDA and HHS know this has been an issue in the field of xenotransplantation for some time; there are many published papers about the issue, particularly pertaining to monkey and pig parts used for transplant and the risk of fomenting a global outbreak of some reassorted disease. The notion that various animal viral DNA (pig, bird, monkey) is being injected along with human viruses ought to be alarming in the extreme, not only in terms of individual health but also in terms of raising risks of a reassortment leading to global public health hazard.

The researchers and manufacturers should be FLOGGED in front of Congress and the media for the inexcusable delay in reporting this, and investigated to find out how much they knew and when they knew it. The FDA ought to be hauled in for not catching this in the first place, or for knowing but letting it slide. I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of the reason why GSK/Elsevier put the kibosh on the Neurotoxicology monkey/vax study article. Is it related? SHOW ME THE MONKEYS!

(blink)

I'm waiting.

Offit has already been in the media on this issue, saying that pig virus in vaccines is not such a big deal!! Because we are exposed to it every day through eating pork. He forgot to say that destroying pathogens is one of reasons we humans tend to cook meat before eating. Or could be that Paulie does drink fresh pig blood on a daily basis?

He didn’t comment on his vaccine contamination with retroviral DNA. Not a word.

The irony of this is that the study was intended the prove the purity of vaccines. The researcher behind it is clearly a friend of pharma: “for now it is my hope that people will not interpret this study as putting vaccines in a bad light (!!), but rather as relfecting the intense attention placed on vaccine safety … people should not be alarmed or over-react to every virus detection…”. http://www.virology.ws/

Hillarious or what?

"low levels of DNA fragments from avian (bird) leukosis virus (a retrovirus) was found in measles vaccine"

not that super-safe, definitively not connected to regressive autism, bowel problems, immune destruction, measles vaccine? why, we've never had any indication that the measles vaccine might cause harm in some individuals.

Jim: They are well paid and watching alright, just not for the consumer!

It is outrageous that it took an independent lab to find the contamination.
It is outrageous that this lab first notified the vaccine maker,not the FDA.
It is outrageous that it took GSK more than a month to contact the FDA.
And it is outrageous that this is not an isolated incident.
Obviously, the health and safety of children isn't a priority for anyone.
Anne Dachel
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