SV40 Cancer Foundation
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The SV40 Cancer Foundation is a lobbying organization devoted to raising the alarm about a potential link between the simian virus SV40 and human cancer.[1][2][3][4]
The SV40 Cancer Foundation was founded by Raphaele and Michael Horwin. The Horwin's son Alexander Horwin was born on June 7, 1996 and was given the oral polio vaccine in November 1997. On August 10, 1998, Alexander was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain cancer, leading to his death on January 31, 1999. The Horwins contend that the polio vaccine their son ingested was contaminated with SV40, leading to his death.[5][6]
The SV40 Cancer Foundation views their mission as raising public awareness of this threat, and lobbying for more research funding for this area. On September 10, 2003, the Horwins were successful in getting Congressman Dan Burton, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, U.S. Government Reform Committee to hold a hearing into SV40 contamination of vaccines.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Rogue virus in the vaccine: Early polio vaccine harbored virus now feared to cause cancer in humans, William Carlsen, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 15, 2001
- ^ The Virus and the Vaccine, Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher, St. Martin's Press, 2004, ISBN 0-3122-7872-1
- ^ The Virus and the Vaccine official website
- ^ The Virus and the Vaccine, Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher, Atlantic Monthly, February 2000.
- ^ The Virus and the Vaccine, The Reading Room, WNYC website.
- ^ Who We Are, SV40 Cancer Foundation official website
- ^ Demanding a Congressional Investigation into SV40, SV40 Cancer Foundation official website
