Discussion on Polio Vaccine and Cancer Risks

The polio vaccine contained a, um, a virus

called Simian Virus 40, SV40.

It's w- it's one of the most c- uh, carcinogenic materials that is known

to man. In fact, it's used now by scientists around the

world to induce

tumors in rats and guinea pigs in labs.

But it was in that vaccine, 98 million people who got that vaccine,

and

my generation got it, and now you've had this explosion of

soft tissue cancers in our generation that kill many, many, many, many,

many more

people than polio ever did