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Ep 105 Down in the Mumps

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Vaccines and Other Medical Studies in Children With Developmental Disabilities

Maurice Hilliman used a cereal passage process to make his mumps vaccine. But how can you know for certain that the virus you've created using this process, or any process, really is actually effective at preventing infection? You have to test it out. This was not an uncommon practice in the 19 thirties, 19 forties, 19 fifties and into the 19 sixties. Paul offatt writes of scientists heading those studies as a moral viewing those children as expendable opportunities to conduct their studies.

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