The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

History

Author: 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 va….Read More

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