Polio Vaccine Controversy and History

We have known now, since 1961 in the United States, and prior to that in other countries,

that the live virus vaccine for polio does cause the disease itself.

And I think there have been about 200 or more cases reported

in the United States. Not quite that many. 140 or so have been reported,

but the likelihood is that the number is, as you say, 200 or more.

Evidence at the time

that the kill virus vaccine was doing all the things that they said it wasn't doing.

And the absolutely positive assertion that the live virus vaccine could be given without risk of paralysis.

That statement was made by the medical medical American Medical Association in its June meeting of 1961,

at a time when all of us knew that cases had been

occurring in the countries in which it had been used. The story, when it's finally revealed,

will be quite fascinating.