Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, what of non-Cutter vaccine? In California, which seemed worried to the point of panic, many doctors insisted that it would take years to prove the Salk vaccine's safety, and said they would not give it to their own children. The California State Board of Public Health and a 17-man advisory committee of medical experts decreed that no Salk vaccine of any kind should be used for at least a week. That, they hoped, would give time enough to find out whether non-Cutter vaccine, at least, was safe. By week's end, only three...
...Cutter vaccine must stay banned, although there is no conclusive evidence that it was faulty...
...Continued inoculation with non-Cutter vaccine is "warranted"; there is no cause to change plans. Reason: polio cases after use of non-Cutter vaccine did not develop in "significant" numbers...
...word of the vaccine trouble flashed across the country (see above), public-health officials were forced into a mad scramble trying to retrieve all Cutter vaccine. In the process, they turned up an unappetizing picture of some doctors who had handed out the vaccine as they pleased, without regard for suggested priorities...
About 1,000,000 shots of the Cutter vaccine had been shipped, and 300,000 given to children in mass inoculation programs. But the company was one of those that had shipped out a few thousand other doses for commercial distribution as a come-on to win doctors' goodwill. To New York went some 2,200 packages (of three doses each), 1,114 of them to New York City. City health-department inspectors found that 250 physicians had acquired 526 packages privately, and 211 of these doctors had given at least 300 injections to patients of their own choice...