The question “was it ever properly examined?” can also be answered historically. Three cases show what happens when the answer is “no.”
The Cutter Incident 1955 #
April 1955. The USA celebrates the first polio vaccine. Mass vaccination campaign, national euphoria.
Within days the first reports come in: children who received the vaccination are contracting polio. Not despite the vaccination — because of it.
The Cutter laboratory had a faulty inactivation process: 120,000 doses contained active poliovirus. The result:
- 40,000 children contracted polio
- 164 severely paralyzed
- 10 deaths
The irony: the FDA had approved the vaccine. Quality controls had failed. Nobody was criminally prosecuted.
The pattern: Flawed manufacturing process → approval → post-market catastrophe → no structural consequences.
SV40 — The Monkey Virus in the Polio Vaccine #
A few years after Cutter, from 1955, polio vaccines were produced in monkey kidney cells. In 1960 came the discovery: these cells contain Simian Virus 40 (SV40) — a monkey virus that produces tumors in animal models.
Between 1955 and 1963, up to 30% of US polio vaccines contained live SV40 viruses. Millions of people were exposed.
An epidemiological study (PubMed, 1999) finds in the exposed cohort:
- Ependymomas: +37%
- Osteosarcomas: +26%
- Other bone tumors: +34%
- Mesotheliomas: +90%
The official position: no elevated cancer risk demonstrated. The study with the +90%: it exists, is published, is not mentioned in official communications.
The pattern: Contamination discovered → decades of silence → cancer data → official all-clear → counter-studies show increases → no conclusions drawn.
This is, for those who recognize it: the same pattern as the current discussion about DNA contaminations in Comirnaty.
Swine Flu 1976 — More Deaths from Vaccination Than from the Flu #
Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1976: A soldier dies from a new swine flu variant. The US government fears a pandemic like 1918 and launches the largest mass vaccination campaign in American history.
45 million people are vaccinated. The flu pandemic doesn’t come.
What does come: Guillain-Barré Syndrome — a paralytic illness. The CDC documents 1,098 GBS cases following vaccination. The campaign is stopped.
The actual outbreak: 1 death from the swine flu. The vaccination campaign: dozens of deaths from GBS, hundreds permanently damaged.
The CDC now acknowledges: “Approximately one additional case of GBS for every 100,000 people who got the swine flu vaccine.”
The pattern: Politically motivated mass vaccination → post-market recognition of harm → delayed acknowledgment → no structural consequences.
What These Three Cases Have in Common #
- Post-market discovery — the harms were not seen in the approval study, but discovered afterward
- Regulatory approval — all three vaccines were regularly approved
- Delayed acknowledgment — in all three cases it took years to decades
- No structural consequences — approval standards remained essentially unchanged
The current case: DNA contaminations in Comirnaty were not found in the approval study, but by independent researchers after market launch. This is not an outlier. This is the historically established pattern.
Sources:
- PMC (2006): The Cutter Incident — pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1383764
- Nature/Oncogene (2004): SV40 contamination of polio vaccine — nature.com
- PubMed (1999): Cancer risk associated with SV40 contaminated polio vaccine — pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10472327
- PubMed (1979): GBS following vaccination in the NIIP — pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/463869
- Smithsonian Magazine: The Long Shadow of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine — smithsonianmag.com
