Doctor had key role by keeping vaccine (polio)

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between government health agencies and the pharmaceutical industry and to

the laxity of our present laws which allow physicians in the pay of drug

companies to serve, despite obvious conflicts of interest, on government

committees which evaluate vaccines and other pharmaceuticals. "

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Doctor had key role by keeping vaccine

September 13th, 2005

Oak Park, Illinois

Originally printed in: Oak Leaves on Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

" Polio vaccine, now 50, had Oak Park doubters, " (April 27) brought back

fond memories of Herbert Ratner, M.D., my mentor and Oak Park's health

director from 1947-1972.

Dr. Ratner played a key role in 1955, a turning point in American

medicine.

I visited Ratner's home on two occasions when Michele Carbone,

M.D.,Ph.D., was present. On May 21, 1997, Ratner had me bring from his

basement refrigerator and give to Dr. Carbone two unopened vials of the

Salk polio vaccine. Ratner had kept the refrigerated vaccine vials for

more than 40 years.

On Feb. 17, 1998, Ratner's three daughters invited Carbone, his four

colleagues, lawyer, court reporter and me to meet at Ratner's home. This

was two months after Ratner's death on Dec. 6, 1997, at 90 years old. One

of his daughters gave Carbone the box of five Salk polio vaccine vials.

Since 1955, Ratner had refrigerated all of the vaccine vials. He knew

that there was live polio virus in the supposedly killed Salk vaccine. In

the 1960's, he found out that the vaccine also contained the SV40 monkey

virus. In the 1990's, Loyola's Carbone implicated the SV40 virus in cancer

tumors, called mesothelioma. Drs. Ratner and Carbone had met at a National

Institutes of Health workshop Jan. 27-28, 1997.

In the 1950's, Cutter Laboratories took the blame for deaths and

paralysis following injection of the polio vaccine. However, Offit,

M.D., in the April 2005 New England Journal of Medicine, has implicated

five drug companies in the disaster: Cutter, Eli Lilly, Parke-,

Pitman- and Wyeth. Each company had difficulties with

formaldehyde-inactivation of the polio virus. In a 1960 lawsuit, the jury

learned that Wyeth produced only one vaccine lot that paralyzed and caused

deaths of several children in the Northeast.

Ratner felt Jonas Salk's vaccine harmed thousands of children due to

incomplete research and rush to market. Basil O'Connor, president of

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, insisted the Salk vaccine be

released for publicity purposes on April 12, 1955. As President lin

Roosevelt's lawyer, he wanted the release to coincide with the 10th

anniversary of the president's death. Thus, the vaccine review committee

had no time to analyze the vaccine trial data.

Polio appeared to decrease after the vaccine introduction because U.S.

Public Health Service, at the time adopted more stringent criteria for

polio reporting. Cases which formerly would have been reported as polio

were now reported as meningitis.

Ratner gave me an article from his friend Max Marshall, Ph.D., chairman

of the department of microbiology at University of California Medical

Center. " The Salk Vaccine " appeared in the November 1955 California

Medicine and read: " Are we so socialized that we must argue that saving

five children at the expense of two who are killed, who otherwise would

have lived, is a legitimate move? There are persons who argue and who are

even surprised that there is disagreement. All proper medical men and a

large number of others will realize that this outlook, whatever its social

propriety, impropriety, or inhumanity, sets up a dictator, a man whose

decisions are sacrosanct, the man who decides to kill some to save others. "

Barbara Mullarkey, (president Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition)

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Salk vaccine cover-up resonates today

September 13th, 2005

Oak Park, Illinois

Originally printed in: Oak Leaves on Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Barbara Mullarkey's July 6 letter was a contribution toward an

understanding of the hidden problems of the 1965 Salk polio vaccine program.

When he brought home a small, cardboard box that year, containing nine

vials of the new Salk vaccine, Herbert Ratner, M.D., director of the Oak

Park Health Department, did not know that they were contaminated with

cancer-causing Simian Virus 40 (SV40) from the green monkey liver tissue on

which the vaccine had been grown. No one, at that time, yet knew of the

monkey virus.

His concern in 1955 was rather than from his analysis of

epidemiological data he had become aware that the supposedly killed virus

Salk vaccine contained dangerous live polio virus which, in various places

around the country including Illinois, was causing polio in vaccinated

children, and that this information was not reported by the press.

Dr. Ratner's purpose in bringing the vials to his home was to get

inconvertible proof that the Salk vaccine contained live polio virus. He

and two other local physicians, Dr. White and Dr. ,

planned to administer the vaccine to themselves at intervals to determine

if their antibodies were rising in response to live virus in the vaccine.

Dr. Ratner and his two fellow physicians had to call off the experiment as

too risky, however, when preliminary tests they did on themselves showed

that Dr. Ratner himself lacked antibodies to the most deadly strain of the

polio virus.

At that time, Dr. Ratner was editor of The Bulletin of the American

Association of Public Health Physicians. So, although he had not been able

to go through with his experiment to demonstrate that there was live polio

virus in the Salk vaccine, he was able to publish a critique in the

November and December issues of The Bulletin, setting forth the

epidemiological evidence that the Salk vaccine had been causing the disease

it was intended to prevent.

The then heads of the government health agencies chose not to respond

to Dr. Ratner's critique; they instead chose to simply ignore it. And soon

after his critique appeared, the president of one of the drug companies,

which manufactured the vaccine, succeeded in getting Dr. Ratner removed

from the editorship by threatening a member of the association's executive

committee with the loss of his job, if the committee did not get rid of

Ratner.

In 1960, Dr. Ratner learned that a government researcher, Dr. Bernice

Eddy, had discovered evidence of a cancer-causing agent in the Salk

vaccine. The agent was soon identified as a monkey virus. Eddy's superiors

ordered her to remain silent about her discovery. When, about that same

time, he learned that eight children in Niles had contracted leukemia

within several years of having received the 1955 Salk vaccine. Dr. Ratner

understood the importance of continuing to hold on to the vials of 1955

vaccine in his refrigerator.

Although they knew by 1960 that there was a cancer-causing monkey virus

in the Salk vaccine, the government health agencies allowed the

contaminated vaccine to stay on the shelves of pharmacies for another year

and a half until a vaccine, believed to be free of the viral contaminant,

could be developed. Then they quietly replaced the old stock with the newer

version of the Salk vaccine. Neither the nation's physicians nor the public

were told there was a problem with the older vaccine.

In an effort to verify that there was monkey virus in his 1955 Salk

vaccine, Dr. Ratner had given vials of his old vaccine to researchers at

two separate institutions before finally giving vials to molecular

pathologist and soon-to-be-Oak , Dr. Michele Carbone in 1997.

Dr.Carbone discovered that there were not one but two strains of SV40 in

the 1955 vaccine.

The government cover-ups of problems with the Salk vaccine in 1955 and

1960 make a cautionary tale of what can happen in a democratic society when

monetary interests and face-saving win out over standard scientific caution

and concern for public safety. " The crass manipulation of the public by

establishment professionals in 1955, " Dr. Ratner wrote, " was a turning

point in the history of modern medicine. "

What happened at that time is relevant to present day collusion between

government health agencies and the pharmaceutical industry and to the

laxity of our present laws which allow physicians in the pay of drug

companies to serve, despite obvious conflicts of interest, on government

committees which evaluate vaccines and other pharmaceuticals.

Helen Ratner Dietz

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