Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The big 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...
The first sign that anything was wrong came when a six-year-old San Diego youngster, Lawrence Vicker, got home for lunch from Eugene Field School and complained that he did not feel like eating. What was more, he had a stiff neck. His mother took his temperature: 103°...
In the hospital, it became clear that Larry indeed had polio. There were two possibilities. Since it was, after all, the beginning of the polio season, he might have been exposed to it before he was inoculated. Or he might have caught the disease from defective vaccine.
The U.S. 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...
Doctors' Dilemma. Most of the confusion about vaccine distribution could have been avoided if the Government, the National Foundation, the A.M.A. and local medical societies had begun to cooperate months ago. They might easily have made plans for joint action on allocations, but simply failed to get together. The...