The tainted polio vaccine that sickened and fatally paralyzed children in 1955

On Aug. 30, 1954, Bernice E. Eddy, a veteran scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, was checking a batch of a new polio vaccine for safety. Created by Jonas Salk, the vaccine was hailed as the miracle drug that would conquer the dreaded illness that killed and paralyzed children. Eddy’s job…

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