Exhibit 110 ยท History
The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed
On 6 July 1960 Bernice Eddy reported to her chief, Joseph Smadel, that extracts of the monkey kidney cells used to make polio vaccine caused cancers in hamsters. After she presented the work at a New York cancer meeting in October 1960, she was denied permission to attend scholarly conferences, her papers were held up, and she was removed from vaccine research. In 1961 federal officials ordered manufacturers to screen new vaccine for SV40 and did not recall existing stocks. Appendix B reproduces correspondence among Eddy, Smadel and Division of Biologics Standards chief Roderick Murray.
- Source
- Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher, St. Martin's Press
- Date
- 2004
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k43rsvss
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The authors' account of why officials did not announce the discovery is their interpretation; no internal memo stating a motive was found.