Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Few in area get questioned vaccine],
script,
April 27, 1955;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc771609/:
accessed July 9, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.