simian virus in a sentence

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1. He then began to study how the genome of simian virus 40 ( SV40 ) is duplicated in cells.
2. Hilleman was one of the early vaccine pioneers to warn about the possibility that simian viruses might contaminate vaccines.
3. They called it simian virus 40, or SV40, because it was the 40th virus found in rhesus kidney tissue.
4. Even if a simian virus turned up in the stored samples, it would not prove that it started the epidemic.
5. He is constructing evolutionary trees for the various human and simian viruses and one cat virus that stymie immunological processes.
6. But in 1960, it was discovered that large batches of the vaccine were contaminated with the simian virus later named SV40.
7. For four decades, government officials have insisted that there is no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful to humans.
8. If the precise technique could be determined, then scientists could investigate whether a contaminating simian virus was capable of surviving the vaccine-making process.
9. When some of the remaining vaccine was tested in 1995 as a result of Hooper's work, Swedish scientists found no evidence of simian viruses in it.
10. A widely held theory is that simian viruses passed from primates to humans in blood-to-blood contact, like a bite or cut during the slaughter of chimpanzees.