Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the jury, the first two answers were easy: yes on both counts. The issue of negligence developed into a long-distance battle between two giants of medical science. From Pittsburgh came a massive, 142-page deposition by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk, called by the plaintiffs' resourceful, aggressive Attorney...
The trouble, he conceded, is that only the amount of virus killed during the first few days can be measured; after that, there is so little left alive that it may not be detectable. But, he insisted, it goes on getting killed at the same proportionate rate. Practical results in...
No Straight Line? The University of California's famed Virologist Wendell M. Stanley took sharpest issue with Salk. A Nobel Prizewinner himself for original work in crystallizing viruses. Stanley flatly denied Salk's theory that formaldehyde kills polio virus particles in a neat, straight-line fashion. "I have...
The jurors took two days to decide, despite their admiration for Dr. Salk took Dr. Stanley's word that the testing methods were more to blame than Cutter. They voted, 10 to 2, that Cutter had not been guilty of negligence "under the conditions prevailing at the time." Even...
*As did 125 close contacts (mostly kin) of those who got the vaccine. There were eleven deaths. Vaccine from Wyeth Laboratories was suspected of causing several cases of polio but no live virus was found in it.