Epstein Barr

[Bill Melchior, NCTR/FDA]

>We also use EBV for the same purpose; our employee-health department required 
>a blood test to demonstrate a positive anti-EBV antibody titer before working
>with it. Evidently most folks (at least in the U.S.) have titers from exposures
>during childhood/adolescence. 

I once heard that the Salk polio vaccine was contaminated with EBV, so that 
many people who took it became anti-EBV positive.  Does anyone know if this
is indeed true?
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