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A special report on polio

United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby and Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele give a nationwide combined television and radio report about the Salk polio vaccine to restore public confidence in its safety after vaccine from Cutter Laboratories was withdrawn following some cases of polio in Cutter-vaccinated children in April 1955. Secretary Hobby and Surgeon General Scheele give…

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