1. Heinonen et al. (1973) reported a higher incidence of neural malignancies in children born to mothers who received inactivated poliovirus during pregnancy. The prospective study of over 50,000 women who were pregnant between 1959-1965 identified 24 malignancies in their children during the first 4 years of life. The rate of malignancy was about two-fold greater in children born to mothers immunized during pregnancy when compared with children born to unimmunized mothers or mothers who received influenza or OPV vaccines. Neural tumors accounted for most of the difference.
2. Farwell et al. (1979) found that of 15 cases of medulloblastoma in children born in Connecticut between 1956-1962, 10 were born to mothers exposed to SV40 contaminated polio vaccine while 5 were born to mothers unexposed. Interpretation of these results, however, is hampered by the low response rates and uncertain accuracy of vaccination histories by obstetricians (Strickler et al., 1998).
Additional studies are needed that focus on maternal vaccination with SV40-contaminated vaccines and risk of cancer and other health effects in offspring.
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I'd just like to know why this connection hasn't been blasted to the public. I would not have known about it, had my neighbor not told me about it, and then chastised me for getting the flu shot this year .. now I'm wondering what was in that.
And that "cutesy" language is exactly what prompted my flippant remark.
It's a said state of affairs when political correctness is what determines what the "studies" will find and when they will decide that correlation = causation and when it doesn't.
I'd just like to know why this connection hasn't been blasted to the public.
Because it is not politcally expedient for research dollars to make the pharmaceuticals companies angry. Cynical attitude on my part? You better believe it. the government approved these vaccines and while there are probably not many involved left from the era of those vaccines, it doesn't look good.
OTOH, they could actually be telling the truth this time around........but I don't trust them, not when it comes to such weak "associations." I would venture to say they are just covering all angles of their collective butts.