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After Cutter: how a manufacturing failure reshaped the choice between Salk and Sabin

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Wikipedia: Poliomyelitis Vaccine
WikipediaPolio vaccine, History, 1955 Safety incidents; 1961 (Sabin oral vaccine); Oral polio vaccine section on vaccine-associated paralysis. Article text re-read in this pass.
Quote, Polio vaccine, History, 1955 Safety incidents; 1961 (Sabin oral vaccine); Oral polio vaccine section on vaccine-associated paralysis. Article text re-read in this pass.
Later investigations showed that the Cutter vaccine had caused 260 cases of polio, killing 11.
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