Authors Series
• Registration

Thursday, October 20, 2005,
7 p.m.

Paul Offit, M.D. Discusses His New Book

The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

• Free and Open to the Public (RSVP Requested)
• Registration Required: call 215-898-3943, or email wyce@wistar.org
• Book signing to follow

In 1955, as Americans rushed to protect their children with the new Salk polio vaccine, a vaccine made by Cutter Laboratories containing live polio virus was administered to 200,000 people in one of modern medicine’s most devastating episodes. As recounted by Paul Offit, M.D., in his new book, The Cutter Incident, 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died, resulting in liability laws that discourage vaccine production and development to this day.

About the Author:

Paul Offit, M.D., is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Henle Professor of Immunologic and Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a national expert on vaccines and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and been quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other publications.