PRODUCTION OF VACCINE
Difficulties “Not Reported”
ATLANTIC CITY (New Jersey), June 7. The Federal Surgeon-General (Dr. Leonard Scheele) said today that Salk polio vaccine manufacturers had told the United States Government only about their good batches of vaccine—and failed, to report the bad batches, which they discarded. Thus, he said, the 'Government had ao hint that difficulties were arising in the programme. Dr. Scheele, who was addressing the American Medical Association convention, also said the original safety tests for the vaccine were inadequate because they allowed some live virus to go undetected. He said Government studies suggested there was live virus in some batches of vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories, of Berkeley, California. The polio programme was getting back on the safe track, with changes in safety-testing rules, he said. More vaccine will be forthcoming, and widespread use of vaccine can be expected to prevent a high percentage of paralytic polio, he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27680, 9 June 1955, Page 13
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