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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cutter incident
    sub title: how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis
  name:
    name part: Offit, Paul A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees, and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes the nation's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.
  table of contents: Little white coffins -- Back to the drawing board -- Grand experiment -- How does it feel to be a killer of children? -- Man-made polio epidemic -- What went wrong at Cutter Laboratories -- Cutter in court -- Cigars, parasites, and human toes -- Death for the lambs.
  note: Paul A. Offit.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Poliomyelitis vaccine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Poliomyelitis
    topic: Vaccination
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cutter Laboratories.
  subject:
    topic: Vaccines
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cutter Laboratories.
  subject:
    topic: Poliovirus Vaccines
    geographic: United States
    topic: history
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Disease Outbreaks
    geographic: United States
    topic: history
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Drug Industry
    geographic: United States
    topic: history
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
    geographic: United States
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Mass Vaccination
    geographic: United States
    topic: history
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    topic: Poliomyelitis
    geographic: United States
    topic: history
    genre: Popular Works
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cutter Laboratories.
  subject:
    topic: Vaccin antipoliomyélitique
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Poliomyélite
    topic: Vaccination
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Vaccins
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Nebenwirkung
  subject:
    topic: Kinderlähmung
  subject:
    topic: Impfstoff
  subject:
    topic: Impfung
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  classification: QR189.5.P6 O44 2005
  classification: 614.5/49/0973
  classification: 2006 F-328
  classification: WC 11 AA1 O32c 2005
  identifier: 0300108648 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780300108644 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2005040105
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005040105-b.html
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005040105-d.html
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 050405
    record change date: 20151202171331.0
    record identifier: in00002769476
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng