Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FIRST POLIO SUIT against Cutter Laboratories has been filed by an Oakland, Calif, couple. They charge that their four-year-old boy contracted polio as a result of the company's "negligence and carelessness" in making the vaccine, ask $100,000 damages from Cutter and two drugstores which sold the vaccine...
...Before week's end, Dr. Scheele announced that the P.H.S.'s testing unit, the Laboratory of Biologics Control, was being overhauled, given new direction, status and staff (with a budget boost of $750,000). All this in the hope that in future it could handle vaccines for polio and other diseases with a new sureness and efficiency...
...first-and second-graders. Said Dr. Scheele. in a thinly veiled reference to the foundation's widely known determination to get an effective vaccine within Founder-President Basil O'Connor's lifetime: "You cannot make viruses meet deadlines." Largely because of this hasty effort, the 1955 polio vaccination schedule had been dangerously premature. Now, said Dr. Stokes, we have "a crippled vaccination program...
...MEDICINE), but it was Cutter that had borne the brunt of public indignation over the early snafus, and it was Cutter's vaccine that was banned by the U.S. Public Health Service. There was some reason for this: Cutter injections were accompanied by a far higher proportion of polio cases than those of any other company...
...Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...