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Correspondence
Nature 408, 18 (2 November 2000) | doi:10.1038/35040762
Don't ignore the risk of vaccine contamination
G. Lecatsas1
- Department of Virology, Medical University of Southern Africa, Medunsa 0204, South Africa
Your News and Opinion articles1, 2 about alleged contamination of vaccines should serve as a warning against over-optimism.These articles highlight the failure to show any evidence for contamination of Wistar Institute polio vaccine stocks by human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV/SIV), and you appeal for a truce.
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