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How Good Are the Tests? Every batch of vaccine is, of course, tested for defects.* Last year each batch was subject to three rigorous tests: by the manufacturer, by the Salk laboratory, and by the National Institutes of Health's Biologies Control Laboratory. This year the full testing is...
Every batch of Cutter vaccine has been recalled. The shipping room at the Cutter Laboratories is not shipping anything: instead, it is piled high with boxes full of bright red vaccine, being returned for testing from all over the U.S. The job will take weeks. As for the children already...
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...
Meanwhile, what of non-Cutter vaccine? In California, which seemed worried to the point of panic, many doctors insisted that it would take years to prove the Salk vaccine's safety, and said they would not give it to their own children. The California State Board of Public Health...
In 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...