Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health Department opposition, then, seems unjustifiable. The present National Biologics Control Act, which gives the government power over the source of the vaccine, should be expanded or revised to allow temporary control over allocation as well. Do Mrs. Hobby and her department expect to wait until the peak polio season is over before they seek adequate controls...
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...
...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 cases of polio had occurred in children inoculated with non-Cutter vaccine (made by Eli Lilly...
...Washington, meanwhile, the nation's top polio experts met with U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele to weigh the crisis. Among them were Dr. Salk, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., who had tabulated last year's tests, and Dr. John Enders, Nobel Prizewinner whose discoveries had made the vaccine possible. After two days, the group told the country...
...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...