The Polio Vaccine Caused Soft Tissue Cancers That K*lled More People Than Polio Did, RFK Jr Says

Fast Fact: The Polio Vaccine caused soft tissue cancers that k*lled more people than polio ever did, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"The polio vaccine contained a virus called SV40."
"It's one of the most carcinogenic materials that is known to man."
"But it was in that vaccine. 98 million people... in my generation got it."
"And now you've had this explosion of soft tissue cancers in our generation that kill many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did."

Polio shots were contaminated with a monkey virus known as SV40 - the contamination occurred from 1950s to the early 1960s,

Kennedy's figure of 98 million people lines up with the total polio vaccinations in the U.S. from 1955 to 1963, due to a massive national campaign that vaccinated nearly the entire population under the age of 40 at the time.

This targeted the baby boomer generation, including Kennedy himself, born in 1954.
The virus is potent in lab animals, reliably causing tumors like sarcomas in hamsters and rodents.
SV40 DNA has been detected in human tumors—such as mesotheliomas, brain cancers, and bone tumors—but critics say the cause is still inconclusive.