Polio vax--Eddy
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From: D. C. Sessions on 15 Jan 2008 20:35 In message <3aCdnUwIpZqo6R7aRVnyuwA(a)bt.com>, JOHN wrote: > http://www.whale.to/v/eddy.html > > > > In 1954 Eddy was fifty-one years old. Born in a mining town in West > Virginia, she got a Ph.D. in 1927 from the University of Cincinnati and came > to Washington during the Great Depression to work at the Hygienic > Laboratory, as she continued to call it. Her job from then until she retired > in 1973 was the safety testing of vaccines. > In 1954 the rush was on. Her lab had gotten samples of the inactivated > polio vaccine to certify on a "due-yesterday" basis. "This was a product > that had never been made before and they were going to use it right away," > she recalled. She and her staff worked around the clock. "We had eighteen > monkeys. We inoculated these eighteen monkeys with each vaccine that came > in. And we started getting paralyzed monkeys." She reported to her superiors > that the lots were Cutter's, and sent pictures of the paralyzed monkeys > along as well. "They were going to be injecting this thing into children." > William Sebrell, the director of the NIH, stopped by the animal house > where they were working, not to thank her for blowing the whistle but to ask > if she and her co-workers wanted their children immunized with the vaccine, > as it was in short supply. "I thanked him but said that my children had > escaped polio so far and that I preferred to wait until the testing program > was over before having them immunized," said Eddy. "Everyone there turned > down the offer." > She heard nothing more about her report and never got the photographs > back. "They went ahead and released the vaccine anyway, a lot of it. The > monkeys they just disregarded." [Book extract. The Health Century] Dr. > Bernice E. Eddy, whose lab tests found that the Cutter vaccine had been > improperly inactivated. Ummm -- Scudamore? How is this a problem, since you keep telling us that viruses don't cause disease? -- | Bogus as it might seem, people, this really is a deliverable | | e-mail address. Of course, there isn't REALLY a lumber cartel. | | There isn't really a Santa Claus, but try www.santaclaus.com. | +--------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs(a)lumbercartel.com> --------------+ |