Health
Supply shortages, anti-vaxxers, infighting: What can go wrong in vaccine rollouts – Sydney Morning Herald
Medical historian Kerry Highley said the similarities between the coronavirus epidemic and polio epidemic were huge, “which makes me very philosophical about the…
In April 1955, in what is known as the Cutter Incident, 200,000 children were given a faulty batch of Salk vaccine. Some 40,000 developed polio, 200 suffered paralysis and 10 died. Trials of Salks vaccine were announced as a success in mid-1955 but its introduction didnt mark the end of polio in Australia.
Highley, author of Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio, said shortages of the vaccine in Australia occurred by July 1956, immunisation campaigns were cancelled at short notice…
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