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Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from

Title : The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Author : Meredith Wadman
Language : en
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