In 1955, the U.S. was at war with 2 adversaries: communism and poliomyelitis, or polio. Communism was being fought with huge factories pouring out weapons of some very messy destruction, and polio was attacked with vaccines that came in 2 forms: a shot and, later, a sugar cube. The innoculated versions were produced by multiple biological laboratories that were under contract to produce serums with inactivated polio viruses to be primarily injected into children. This hopefully prevented them from being infected by the Wild Poliovirus Type 1. This type destroyed neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord, causing paralysis to the diaphragm or the leg muscles. The nerve damage was permanent, and iron lungs or wheelchairs assisted the victims, while a young body’s healing criteria looked for new nerve pathways to accomplish the original task. Some recovered their functions with permanent damage, and others died. Later in life, these victims might face post-polio paralysis as the new, alternate pathways that developed became overloaded and died from stress as age set in. Wheelchairs were back in. The March of Dimes program put funds into research, and vaccines were produced by firms motivated by profit. A laboratory in Berkley, California, called Cutters, shipped out 200,000 doses of vaccines tainted with live viruses, and 40,000 immunized kids contracted the disease. As effective as the other vaccines were, the rush to get the product out into the market produced a “black eye” and crippled children. A whistle-blower employee at Cutters tried to warn her management that her test monkeys were dying because of the vaccines. Due to the profits expected and the imposed delivery dates, Cutters shipped it out anyway. This is another example of why greedy humans need to go extinct because of their internal drive to make a profit at any cost. The well-intentioned March of Dimes program turned into a Crush of Quarters fiasco that crippled vaccine integrity.
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