Yeah... Talking about polio vax... You might want to rethink that one too:
"In April 12, 1955, following the announcement of the success of the polio vaccine trial, Cutter Laboratories became one of several companies that was recommended to be given a license by the United States government to produce
Salk's
polio vaccine. In anticipation of the demand for vaccine, the companies had already produced stocks of the vaccine and these were issued once the licenses were signed.
In what became known as the
Cutter incident, some lots of the Cutter vaccine—despite passing required safety tests—contained live
polio virus in what was supposed to be an inactivated-virus vaccine. Cutter withdrew its vaccine from the market on April 27 after vaccine-associated cases were reported.
The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed
abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the
central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio.
[2] The exposures led to an
epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths.
[3] The director of the microbiology institute lost his job, as did the equivalent of the assistant secretary for health.
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby stepped down.
Dr William H. Sebrell Jr, the director of the NIH, resigned.
[4]"
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