Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious
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The Effects of Marburg on the Production of Vaccines
Initially, samples taken from infected people were handled without any extra precautions by hospital staff. And actually, all of that changed because of Marburg. Secondly, the remaining monkeys that had been imported in the same batches as the infected ones were culled. Future imports were super restricted and tons of monkey kidney cells had to be thrown away,. All of which led to a pretty big shortage in polio vaccine in Germany, which then led to an increase in cases of polio. It's amazing like these cascading effects.
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