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Article: Vaccine Safety Consumer Group Cites Conflict of Interest in Government Report On Cancer & Contaminated Polio Vaccine Link
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- January 27, 1998
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine information Center is criticizing an article published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) as an attempt by government officials with conflicts of interest to prematurely dismiss the role of polio vaccines contaminated with simian virus 40 (SV40) in human bone, brain and lung cancers. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) cites incomplete data and methodological flaws in the government's analysis and points out that there is an inherent conflict of interest in having government officials lead investigations of health problems associated with vaccines which the government ...