POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27678, 7 June 1955, Page 11

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE

Mother Of Treated Children Dies (Rec. 9 p.m.) BOISE (Idaho), June 6. A young mother whose children had been vaccinated with Salk poliomyelitis vaccine, made by the Cutter Laboratories, died yesterday of bulbar poliomyelitis after an illness of 24 hours. Her death was the sixth in the current outbreak of the disease which has stricken 78 persons in Idaho. She was the thirty-eighth person in the State to contract the disease after close association with vaccinated children. . Meanwhile, a Utah scientist. Dr. Louis P. Gebhardt, agreed with Cutter Laboratories that his finding of “probably a very, very small quantity of live virus” in one lot of vaccine called for further examination by the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Gebhardt, a research specialist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, also agreed with a laboratory statement that if his finding was confirmed, “it will be evidence of the need for new, more stringent safety tests established last week by the Se Cutter. Laboratories issued a statement on Saturday night, saying that every lot of vaccine manufactured by them had passed the Government safety test, then required, before it was released.