Charles McCance [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by John Parascandola, Aug 8, 1995.

Parascandola, John, 1941-....

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Center for Disease Control

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

McCance, Charles.

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Biographical Sketch: McCance was Director of the Division of Quarentine, CDC. His career began as a quarentine inspector in the 1950s in New York City at what would become JFK International Airport, inspecting for smallpox, cholera and yellow fever. He later worked for the CDC in its malaria eradication program. Lastly, he worked in the PHS Office of Refugee Health. From the description of Charles McCance [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by John Parascandola, Aug 8, ...