Word: cutters
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Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven deaths. Vaccine from a second manufacturer, Pennsylvania's Wyeth Laboratories, was suspected of responsibility for an unstated number of polio cases in the East, but the most rigorous testing by the federal Division of Biologic Standards failed to demonstrate live virus. These cases remained a disguieting mystery...
...stags will be allowed at Radcliffe's annual Christmas formal Dec. 10, Social Chairman Helen Cutter '57 revealed last night. This decision reverses last year's policy of encouraging stags. "The experiment was not a failure," Miss Cutter explained, "It was just not much of anything...
...stags has, however, raised financial problems, the Social Chairman admitted. Only two dormitories will be used instead of the customary three or four, and ticket prices must rise to $3.50 per couple, compared to $2.50 last year. "We were all right when we had stags in the winter," Miss Cutter said, "but we lost money when we eliminated them in the spring...
...Public Health Service wound up its study of the Cutter vaccine "incident" (TIME, Sept. 5) with a report that has now found live polio virus of the most dangerous strain (Mahoney, of Type I) in all six of the suspected batches of vaccine; also, Type II was found in one lot and Type III in two more. Of the 401,000 vaccinated with Cutter material, 79 got polio; 90 others were infected by contact with Cutter-vaccinated children...
...last week, instead of the scheduled 20 million children, only 6.5 million had been vaccinated. But the effects of the Cutter crisis were not all destructive. The PHS shook up and expanded its Laboratory of Biologies Control. Scientists, led by Dr. Jonas Salk himself, buckled down to the search for an improved vaccine. The National Foundation for-Infantile Paralysis, which rushed the vaccine program prematurely this year, grimly planned a bigger and better program...