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  • The Cutter Incident

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

    by Paul A. Offit

    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 pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews... (more)