{"product_id":"the-cutter-incident-how-america-s-first-polio-vaccine-led-to-the-growing-vaccine-crisis","title":"The Cutter Incident: How America s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eVaccines 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 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 nations 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 paralyzed  and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how  as a consequence of the tragedy  one jurys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964385161269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300108648","price":32.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300108644.jpg?v=1770459315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cutter-incident-how-america-s-first-polio-vaccine-led-to-the-growing-vaccine-crisis","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}