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...blackboard seemed to loom over the auditorium at California's Department of Public Health in Berkeley. It also loomed over the nation. For the blackboard charted every case of polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease...
...Public Health Service made a hurried check. All reported cases of polio among vaccinated children were youngsters who had received vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories. This raised the agonizing possibility that a batch of vaccine had gone through with some live virus in it. Like all vaccines, the Salk preparation contains germs of the disease that it is meant to fight. In the Salk process, these virus particles are killed, with formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen...
Every batch of Cutter vaccine has been recalled. The shipping room at the Cutter Laboratories is not shipping anything: instead, it is piled high with boxes full of bright red vaccine, being returned for testing from all over the U.S. The job will take weeks. As for the children already vaccinated, the evidence might be almost as long in coming. The incubation period-when polio virus can be multiplying in the human body without causing detectable symptoms-varies from three to 35 days. And the vaccine does not begin to be effective (that is, to develop antibodies against the multiplication...
...Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, Calif.; Eli Lilly Co. and Pitman-Moore, Indianapolis; Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit; Sharp & Dohme and Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., Philadelphia...
...West at such a clip that AEC buying cannot keep up. No sooner had AEC begun operation of a new ore-buying station at Riverton, Wyo. last week than it had to announce plans for two more new stations, one at Greenriver, Utah and the other at Cutter, Ariz...