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The Cutter incident : how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis /

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 Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Offit, Paul A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis vaccine > History.
Poliomyelitis > Vaccination > United States > History.
Cutter Laboratories.
Vaccines > United States.
Poliovirus Vaccines > United States > history > Popular Works.
Disease Outbreaks > United States > history > Popular Works.
Drug Industry > United States > history > Popular Works.
History, 20th Century > United States > Popular Works.
Mass Vaccination > United States > history > Popular Works.
Poliomyelitis > United States > history > Popular Works.
Vaccin antipoliomyélitique > Histoire.
Poliomyélite > Vaccination > États-Unis > Histoire.
Vaccins > États-Unis.
Nebenwirkung.
Kinderlähmung.
Impfstoff.
Impfung.
USA.
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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.