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Nature 431, 495 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431495a; Published online 29 September 2004
Monkey virus may be cleared of cancer link
Helen Pearson
Laboratory contamination could have lent unwarranted support to the contentious idea that a monkey virus causes certain types of cancer, according to a study published last week.The study tackled a long-standing disagreement in cancer biology about whether simian virus 40 (SV40), which contaminated stocks of polio vaccine in the 1950s and 1960s, could have infected vaccinated patients and triggered a range of chest, bone, brain and blood cancers.
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