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* Samples of vaccine are mixed with cultures of monkey-kidney tissue. If the tissue cells go on growing normally, there is no active virus present. Also, as one of numerous further checks, vaccine is injected directly into the brains of monkeys, where any live virus would quickly cause paralysis.
¶ Cutter vaccine must stay banned, although there is no conclusive evidence that it was faulty;
¶ 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.
As word of the vaccine trouble flashed across the country (see above), public-health officials were forced into a mad scramble trying to retrieve all Cutter vaccine. In the process, they turned up an unappetizing picture of some doctors who had handed out the vaccine as they pleased, without regard...
About 1,000,000 shots of the Cutter vaccine had been shipped, and 300,000 given to children in mass inoculation programs. But the company was one of those that had shipped out a few thousand other doses for commercial distribution as a come-on to win doctors' goodwill...