The cutter incident how americas first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisiskindle edition bydr paul a offit mdauthorformat kindle edition 46 out of 5 stars34 ratings see all formats and editionshide other formats and editions amazon price. The cutter incident how americas first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis w hen i lecture medical students on immunisation i explain that the antivaccine lobby contains few elderly people because most of them have lived through epidemics of vaccine preventable diseases such as polio or diphtheria. The cutter incident how americas first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis 1st first edition by offit md dr paul a 2005 books amazonca. Drawing on interviews with public health officials pharmaceutical company executives attorneys cutter employees and victims of the vaccine as well as on previously unavailable archives dr paul offit offers a full account of the cutter disaster he describes the nations relief when the polio vaccine was developed by jonas salk in 1955 the production of the vaccine at industrial . The first half of this book is an excellent detailed account of the vaccine disaster that occurred with two of the companies that made polio vaccine at the height of the polio vaccine development of the 50s