Yellow Fever Vaccination, Avian Leukosis Virus, and Cancer Risk in Man

7 July 1972

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 177 (4043) , 76-77
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.177.4043.76

Abstract

Comparison was made between 2659 veterans who died of cancer, during 1950 to 1954 or 1959 to 1963, and matched controls, based on the frequency of yellow fever immunization during World War II. The vaccine was produced from chick embryos that almost certainly contained avian leukosis-sarcoma viruses. Among the veterans, no relation was found between vaccination and leukemia, lymphoma, or other cancer.

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