TY  - BOOK
AU  - Offit,Paul A.
TI  - The Cutter incident: how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis 
SN  - 9780300130379 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QR189.5.P6 O44 2005eb
U1  - 614.5/49/0973 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Cutter Laboratories
KW  - Poliomyelitis vaccine
KW  - History
KW  - Poliomyelitis
KW  - Vaccination
KW  - United States
KW  - Vaccines
KW  - Poliovirus Vaccines
KW  - Popular Works
KW  - Disease Outbreaks
KW  - Drug Industry
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Mass Immunization
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Preventive Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Forensic Medicine
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - პოლიომიელიტი--
KW  - პოლიომიელიტის ვაქცინის ისტორია
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index; Little white coffins -- Back to the drawing board -- Grand experiment -- How does it feel to be a killer of children? -- Man-made polio epidemic -- What went wrong at Cutter Laboratories -- Cutter in court -- Cigars, parasites, and human toes -- Death for the lambs
N2  - 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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