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The Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
The Cutter Incident How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
Author: Paul A. Offit M.D.
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceut...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300108644
ISBN-10: 0300108648
Publication Date: 10/10/2005
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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great story on how the polio vaccine was made and how it caused deaths, paralysis, lawsuits and shortages of all vaccines through the years, due to lawsuits. A must read for any polio survivor and anyone who is interested in the history of polio.
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