Episode 254: The Cutter incident - Part One

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It would start with a headache, a fever, maybe a funny tummy. But soon enough your knee would give out, or your arm would hang limp, or you would struggle to breathe. You'd be taken to the hospital, where you'd get your diagnosis - polio. If you survived, you ran the risk of doing so with paralyzed limbs, struggling to walk on bulky leg braces. Your parents would be terrified they might lose you, and so everybody wanted the one thing that could stop all of this - a vaccine.

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Articles and books:

Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky
The Cutter Incident, by Dr. Paul Offit
NEJM: The Cutter Incident

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