According to Debbie Bookchin and James Schumacher, nearly every dose of polio vaccine produced from 1954 to 1963 was contaminated with a cancer-causing monkey virus. (Monkey kidneys were used to develop the vaccine.) Bookchin and Schumacher’s new book is The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed .
» Read an excerpt of The Virus and the Vaccine in the Reading Room
Music: Instrumentals 6/8/04: #12 (“Coffee Talk/ Wild Drums” by DJ Krush)
Instrumentals 7/8/03: # 9 (“Pole Tricks” by Japancakes)
» Read an excerpt of The Virus and the Vaccine in the Reading Room
Music: Instrumentals 6/8/04: #12 (“Coffee Talk/ Wild Drums” by DJ Krush)
Instrumentals 7/8/03: # 9 (“Pole Tricks” by Japancakes)
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