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The Cutter Incident – How America′s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis - Hardcover
Synopsis
This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes America's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralysed and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.
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Review
'The Cutter Incident is an enjoyable read, at times like a detective thriller, at others like a courtroom drama.' -- Jonathan R Carapetis, The British Medical Journal, March 25 2006
About the Author
Paul Offit, M.D., is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Henle Professor of Immunologic and Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0300108648
- ISBN 13 9780300108644
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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