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What of Non-Cutter Vaccine? Weighing the evidence, the Public Health Service faced a tough decision. Paralytic cases seemed to follow the Cutter vaccine: to Idaho, Washington state and even to Denver. At the same time, there were thousands of children who had got Cutter vaccine without developing polio. But the PHS took the only course it could for safety's sake: it forbade further use of Cutter vaccine anywhere until the life-and-death question was answered. Federal virologists were painstakingly checking the Cutter Laboratories. Said Vaccine-Maker Robert Cutter: "We don't believe that they...
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...