Public health concerns from human exposure to oncogenic avian herpesviruses
Purchase, H.G.; Witter, R.L.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 189(11): 1430-1436
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 3027010 Document Number: 119
This comprehensive review of the literature brings together a large body of information relating to avian herpesviruses and human health hazards, particularly human cancer. This review should be useful to scientists and administrators in public research and action agencies and in private industry. The review covered the numerous attempts to resolve the question of whether avian herpesviruses pose any public health hazard to human beings. The large body of experimental evidence in both avian and human virology, serology, pathology, and epidemiology strongly supports the conclusion that no etiologic relationship exists between avian herpesviruses and human cancer. Thus, in our opinion and in the opinion of experts in the human and avian cancer field,' Marek's disease and vaccines against Marek's disease pose no human health hazards. Although additional studies are always possible, we believe there is sufficient evidence in this paper to warrant this firm conclusion.
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