NOT: FDA to investigate vaccines for XMRV virus

The FDA is investigating vaccines for contamination by a variety of latent viruses, including XMRV. They believe that cancer- and tumor-causing latent viruses may become active during the vaccine manufacturing process, and that some of these viruses are hard to detect with standard methods.

In case you're curious about where the FDA stands, this is the last line of the article:

"Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a recently discovered human retrovirus that has been found in both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer patients. Although these findings need further confirmation, there is a potential safety concern regarding XMRV in cell substrates used in vaccines and in transmission by blood transfusion and blood products. We are developing sensitive detection assays for XMRV to evaluate cell substrates and investigate virus transmission by blood transfusion in a monkey model."

Read the entire article at
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/scienceresearch/biologicsresearchareas/ucm127327.htm

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