Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley. Calif. (TIME, May 9, et seq.). Doctors suspected that some of the vaccine must have contained live virus. Last week, after four months of investigation...
- An estimated 401,000 children received shots of Cutter vaccine in the fortnight before it was recalled. Polio struck 79 of the vaccinated children and 90 others who came into contact with them.
Cutter public-relations men prepared a statement hailing the report as a complete vindication. "A weight is off my shoulders," Dr. Cutter told a friend. "I'm going home and work with my camellias.'' But U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele said: "[The report] was not favorable or...
As of last week, instead of the scheduled 20 million children, only 6.5 million had been vaccinated. But the effects of the Cutter crisis were not all destructive. The PHS shook up and expanded its Laboratory of Biologies Control. Scientists, led by Dr. Jonas Salk himself, buckled down to the...
* The virus is inactivated by mixing it with a formaldehyde solution. The key to the correct process is using just the right amount of formaldehyde and letting the brew simmer for just the right duration; too much or too long may cook the virus to a point where the vaccine...