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Cutter Incident

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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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Candy Land and Vaccines

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It is no fun having a vaccine-preventable disease. Believe me, I still remember having a bad case of chicken pox when I was a kid. So how is the board game Candy Land associated with vaccines? Eleanor Abbot designed Candy Land for kids recovering from polio in 1948.  It was played on the hospital wards

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