FW: INCURABLE BONE CANCER MAY BE LINKED TO SV-4O POLIO VACCINE

[Guest guest]

Meryl Dorey wrote:

The Daily Telegraph

Thursday October 21, 1999

An incurable bone cancer may be linked to contaminated polio vaccine

and exposure to herbicides, a researcher said yesterday.

Multiple myeloma attacks bone marrow, has no cure and causes bone

collapse, fractures and paralysis.

The head of the myeloma clinic at the Cedars-Sinai Centre in Los

Angeles, Professor Durie, said in Sydney that while the disease

commonly affected people over 65, an increasing number of baby boomers

were being diagnosed.

" In recent years we found that not only has the incidence [of the

diseases[ gone up, but it's occurring in somewhat younger people. " he

said.

Professor Durie believes evidence that some myeloma patients have a

cancer-causing virus called SV40, which contaminated early batches of

polio vaccine in the 1950s and 1960s, may explain why baby boomers are

developing disease.