Salk vaccine safe, effective.

Along comes the first widespread vaccination campaign with the Salk vaccine.

They were not going to let this vaccine fail with all the fanfare that was going into it.

They weren't careful about their manufacturing standards.

They weren't careful about the testing.

The Cutter incident was pretty much a disaster.

The fact that they were making vaccines with monkey kidney cells, they discovered the presence

of SV40, which is a mutation that can cause cancers in animals and humans.

When scientists located the SV40 and we're trying to talk about it, they were threatened

and harassed.

In the early 50s, the SOC vaccine and in the late 50s, the SAVEIN vaccine.

And everybody got it.

Because, you know, why wouldn't you?

Nobody ever heard of vaccine injuries in those days.

Polio was caused by both, the injected and the oral polio vaccine.

You could have an injection of a polio vaccine and still be a carrier and spread polio. So when it comes to the definition of polio, anything that limped or had a cough or anything

before the vaccines came out in the 50s was pretty much polio. Afterwards, the criteria changed.

Before the vaccine, there was something called non-parallytic polio.

After the vaccine, they termed that aseptic meningitis.

No laboratory testing was required before the vaccine. After the vaccine was released in order

to make a diagnosis of polio, a lab test was required.

For anyone who says, my aunt had polio, some of us have got to be willing to face the ugly

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