Has tainted polio vaccine caused an increase in cancer?
” I have represented, and am still representing, individuals who have been paralyzed, killed, and or severely damaged as a result of the Orimune vaccine manufactured, sold and distributed from 1962 until the year 2000. Though attorneys are advocates, and I am an advocate in the courtroom for my clients, I have left my attorney’s hat in Philadelphia and have come before this committee to raise questions as someone who has authored peer reviewed articles in the medical literature on the issue of SV40 and human cancers. There is a history of negligence involving this vaccine manufacturer and the regulators, who are the employees of the Government agency charged with the responsibility of insuring the safety, purity and potency of vaccines. In 1988, the United States Supreme Court in a unanimous decision, (Berkovitz v. United States, 486 U.S. 531) held that under federal government FDA regulations, the vaccine manufacturer must conduct a variety of tests to measure the safety of vaccines a