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2. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company&#8217spolio vaccine.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, 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 the nation&#8217srelief 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 paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, because of the tragedy, one jury&#8217sverdict 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.Praise for The Cutter Incident&#8220Ofit&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the development of

3. the polio vaccine. He also offers a compelling plea for a strengthened law to provide relief to companies that produce vaccines so that our nation may be afforded the most cost- effective and long-lasting form of prevention against many infectious diseases&#8212aneffective vaccine.&#8221&#8212Stnley Goldfarb,&nbspNewYork Post&#8220Th best account you will ever read about the interplay between big drug companies and bigger government.&#8221&#8212Peer Huber,&nbspFores&#8220Th book is very well written and reads almost like a detective story, with a nice balance between&nbspperonal anecdotes and new materials&nbspnotdiscussed in other accounts of the Cutter incident. It draws on meticulous archival documentation and on interviews with public health officers, pharmaceutical company executives, Cutter employees, and victims of the partially inactivated vaccine.&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp An important and valuable contribution.&#8221&#8212Naav Davidovitch,&nbspIsi&#8220Wel written and easily understood, yet balanced with enough technical detail for medical professionals to read informatively cover to cover.&#8221&#8212Jornal of the American Medical Association

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