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The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to a ...

The vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the ...

Author Paul Offit, a prominent US infectious diseases physician and vaccinologist, has traced the origins of today's “vaccine crisis” to an incident during the ...

Tainted Cutter polio vaccine killed and paralyzed children in 1955

Fifty-one were paralyzed, and five died, Offit wrote in his 2005 book, “The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the ...

The Cutter Incident, 50 Years Later | New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract. On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine — made by inactivating poliovirus with formaldehyde — was declared to be safe and effective. The ...

Historical Vaccine Concerns | Vaccine Safety - CDC

Cutter Incident: 1955. In 1955, some batches of polio vaccine given to the public contained live polio virus, even though they had passed ...

Cutter Laboratories - Wikipedia

On April 12, 1955, following the announcement of the success of the · In what became known as the Cutter incident, some lots of the Cutter vaccine—despite ...

THE CUTTER INCIDENT On April 25, 1955, an infant with paralytic ...

This was the beginning of the. Cutter incident. Approximately 400,000 persons, pri- marily grade-school children, had been inoculated with Cutter vaccine during.

Review: The Cutter Incident by Paul Offit - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Offit's sobering inquiry into “one of the worst biological disasters in American history” is a work of unflinching investigative journalism.

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the ...

In The Cutter Incident, Paul Offit lays out the meaning of this verdict: that pharmaceutical companies are liable for damage without negligence, even if they ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the ...

A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine. Vaccines have saved more ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to ... - jstor

THE CUTTER INCIDENT CAUSED AN IMMEDIATE change in the way that vaccines were made and regulated in the United States. As a consequence, companies made a safer ...

The Cutter incident and the rollout of the polio vaccine.

The rollout of Jonas Salk's vaccine put an end to repeated midcentury summer outbreaks of the disease.

Polio: Part III—The Vaccine

The Cutter Incident ... Only two weeks into the initial vaccine rollout, reports of polio symptoms in a few vaccine recipients began to emerge. The surgeon ...

The Cutter Incident - Yale University Press

This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical ...

The Cutter incident and the development of a Swedish polio vaccine ...

The Cutter incident did not only harm those exposed to the live polio vaccine, it halted the entire US programme for a brief period and it affected public trust ...

THE CUTTER INCIDENT | American Journal of Epidemiology

NEAL NATHANSON, ALEXANDER D. LANGMUIR; THE CUTTER INCIDENT: POLIOMYELITIS FOLLOWING FOBMALDEHYBE-INACTIVATED POLIOVIRUS VAOCINATION IN THE UNITED STATES DU.

To Boldly Remember Where We Have Already Been in - Brill

The Cutter Incident, above all, was a failure in government supervision of pharmaceutical companies and the rush to bring a polio vaccine to ...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the ...

Paul A. Offit. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing. Vaccine Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii ...

1955 – The Polio Vaccine – The Cutter Incident - LearnGxP

In what became known as the “Cutter Incident,” some lots of the Cutter vaccine (despite passing required safety tests) contained live polio ...

The Cutter Incident - The BMJ

Author Paul Offit, a prominent US infectious diseases physician and vaccinolo- gist, has traced the origins of today's “vaccine crisis” to an incident during ...