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Exhibit 107

Oral history interview with Bernice Eddy, 4 December 1986 (finding aid)

Exhibit 107 ยท Archival finding aid

Oral history interview with Bernice Eddy, 4 December 1986 (finding aid)

Cutter scandal; William Sebrell, James Shannon, Joseph Smadel; holding back her polio vaccine research

The National Library of Medicine holds an NIH/NCI oral-history interview with Bernice Eddy. The finding aid lists its topics as including "the Cutter scandal; William Sebrell, James Shannon, Joseph Smadel; holding back her polio vaccine research."

Source
National Library of Medicine; NIH/NCI oral history program
Date
4 December 1986
Quoted from
NLM finding aid, Scope and Contents (OH 136, Box 1, Folder 5; interview 4 Dec 1986)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/4/archival_objects/30845
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
The finding aid lists topics only.

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Finding MED-7.1
Reported Before Cutter's polio vaccine was licensed, an NIH scientist found that half the Cutter lots she tested paralyzed monkeys. Her results did not reach the licensing committee.