Production Of Oral Polio Virus Vaccine

Explains how oral poliovirus vaccine (Sabin) is produced at Wyeth Biological Laboratories in Marietta, Pennsylvania, where the first U S-made oral vaccine was produced. Includes inspection and quarantine of live monkeys in sterilized quarters, processing of monkey kidneys into cell broth, seeding and growth of poliovirus in kidney cell broth and harvesting of vaccine.

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