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Boston Smallpox Epidemic
Between April and December 1721, 5,889 Bostonians had smallpox, and 844 died of it. The Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721 is known for the passionate controversy over inoculation that erupted in the city, mostly between Cotton Mather and William Douglass. -
Last few smallpox outbreaks
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Cutter incident
fear of polio was so urgent that the demand for the newly licensed vaccine that in one or two tragic instances, such as the Cutter instance, inactivation of the vaccine virus was incomplete. This resulted in the exposure of several thousand children to live with the polio virus. -
Decision to abandon routine smallpox immunization entirely
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Five Licensed Manufacturers of Vaccines
When the FDA undertook the congressionally
mandated review of all vaccines in 1973, there were fi ve licensed manufacturers of
measles vaccine in the United States. -
Swine Flu outbreak
swine flu became discovered that was indistinguishable from the influenza virus which had killed 50,000,000 people at the end of WWI. -
President Ford's immunization campaign
President Ford gathered a new group of scientific advisers that had been involved with the swine flu and declared a mass immunization campaign of unprecedented scale against the swine flue. -
Lawsuits that almost eradicated the vaccine industry
By 1977, when the review was completed and
the effects of the aforementioned lawsuits had settled in, only one licensed US vaccine
manufacturer remained. -
First Smallpox Eradication Program
After a massive breakout of smallpox during the end of the nineteenth century, this was the first grand march to eradicate smallpox with vaccinations. -
World Health Organization's official procalamation
Proclamation that smallpox as a human disease had been successfully eradicated -
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
“immunized” vaccine manufacturers against such extreme litigious harm when
accepted production practices had been followed -
Andrew Wakefield Study
Wakefield published his controversial research study that connected MMR vaccinations as a cause of autism/autistic disorders.