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The Cutter Incident (edit title/settings)

How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

by Paul A. Offit (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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ON MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18, 1955, JOSEphine Gottsdanker drove her five-year-old daughter, Anne, and ten-year-old son, Jerry, to the pediatrician.

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  1. Paul A. Offit (Author)

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