S3 E3: Responsibility vs. Liability: The Cutter Incident

What did the Cutter Incident leave us with? Are pharmaceutical companies more responsible now, or are testing systems better? Some good things came out of the Cutter Incident, but the Gottsdanker verdict was not one of them.

Show Notes for the Cutter Incident:

The Cutter Incident Research:
https://www.cdc.gov/os/wewerethere/polio/index.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Dr. Paul A. Offit M.D.. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis (Kindle Locations 555-556). Kindle Edition.
Everyone makes mistakes, so I have a correction. You’ll also hear this in the episode, but I thought I would put it here, also.
I have to interject that I was a bit confused. In the Crippled Generation, I said that cortisone was a hormone produced by humans. It’s not, it’s a steroid that suppresses the immune system. I confused cortisone with cortisol which is a hormone that regulates immune response as well as metabolism. Forgive me for my misspeaking.
Mystery Disease in Sudan:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gma/investigating-mysterious-illness-south-sudan-163329330.html

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