This article was written in Oct. 1999 and can be seen also at Dr. Martin's homepage. One of society's highest obligations is the protection of its children.
Vaccine programs provide a proven method for childhood disease prevention.
The safety of such programs has been entrusted to vaccine manufacturers and to government regulatory agencies. Although widely touted as the major medical triumph of the 20th century, the development of viral vaccines has elements of less than stellar performance. Rather the production method was switched to the use of kidney cells from the much less well characterized African green monkeys. Only 4 of the SCMV isolates were detectable using the regular methods for virus detection. No changes in testing methodology were imposed, nor was the scientific community alerted to the findings.