Albert Sabin
In 1961, Sabin’s live, attenuated polio vaccine replaced Jonas Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine that had been in use since 1955.
History of Vaccines
Benjamin Franklin Regretted Letting His Son Die of Smallpox
Benjamin Franklin regretted that he had not protected his son against smallpox by having him inoculated. He died with smallpox when he was just four years old..
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Autism Omnibus Proceedings
The Autism Omnibus Proceedings were formed in 2002 by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to consolidate about 5,000 claims from parents that vaccines caused their children to have autism. A series of test cases were used for theories that autism could be caused by: thimerosal-containing vaccines, in combination with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine thimerosal-containing
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Cutter Incident
The Cutter Incident is a well known tragedy in which at least 200,000 children and adults were given a polio vaccine that was not properly inactivated. The shots were given in 1955, just after they were first approved, and actually caused 40,000 cases of polio, including 10 deaths and 200 cases of paralysis. The vaccines,
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