The Cutter Incident
48m
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Neal Nathanson M.D., discusses a 1955 incident in which Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., inadvertently released batches of polio vaccine that contained the live virus. Nathanson, who headed the unit of the Epidemic Intelligence Service that investigated cases of polio resulting from the Cutter vaccine, also provides an update on efforts toward global eradication of poliomyelitis. This program is presented by the George Dock Society for the History of Medicine.
Recorded Nov. 1, 2016.
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