REPORT – Cutter Problem

Date

May 14th, 1955

Description

“An Estimate of The Extent of the National Problem of Poliomyelitis Associated with Cutter Vaccine,” a special report prepared by Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir, Dr. Neal Nathanson, and Mr. Earl Diamond indicating that the Cutter vaccine is associated with polio while other vaccines that produce the virus in inoculated are seen as coincidental. Produced by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center (CDC), Poliomyelitis Surveillance Unit (PSU).

Source

The U. S. National Archives and Records Administration at Atlanta, 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260 www.archives.gov/atlanta