Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(8):662-664; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.8.662
© 1999 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kuska, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kuska, B.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 8, 662-664, April 21, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

NEWS

SV40 Bugaboo: Spinning the News

Bob Kuska

Last January 20, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a review on the cellular and molecular biology of simian virus 40 and its implications for human health. According to Janet Butel, Ph.D., lead author of the review and a virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, her paper, like so many scientific articles, went unreported in the press.



View larger version (142K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Dr. Janet Butel

 
But not for long. Butel said she arrived at her office one morning about 4 weeks later and was swept without warning into a roiling, 2-day media frenzy. "The phones were going crazy, and there were messages from all of the media for interviews," she said. "I had no idea what was going on."

What was going on, a reporter later told her, was that a story from London had reached the United States and touted Butel's "new findings" linking the original polio vaccines, known . . . [Full Text of this Article]

French Connection

SV40 Goes to Washington

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Perverse Twist


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 JNCI J Natl Cancer InstHome page
R. A. J. Matthews
Re: SV40 Bugaboo: Spinning the News
J Natl Cancer Inst, October 6, 1999; 91(19): 1685a - 1686a.
[Full Text] [PDF]