Дружба народов во время холодной войны
Mar. 11th, 2005 12:01 pmУ ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aabad обсуждают исследование течения сифилиса без лечения в Tuskegee. Забавно, никто не упомянул о гораздо более интересном эксперименте осуществлённом американцами в СССР в конце 50-х. Когда пришло время тестировать вакцину против полиомиелита, Альберт Сабин вспомнил, где он провёл детство.
Sabin soon arranged for mass testing in what turned out to be an ideal spot, the Soviet Union. The powerful government control over all aspects of Russian life, he knew, was sure to make for a perfectly executed field trial.
Yet why should the Russian government submit its subjects to such an experiment?
"Well, I'll tell you," Sabin explained to an interviewer; "before 1954, they used to say in the Soviet Union, `Under our socialist health system, we don't get polio the way they do in capitalist countries.' Then, all of a sudden, their turn came. They began to have big epidemics, 18,000-20,000 paralytic cases a year, and they were frightened. I knew it, and I invited them to Cincinnati to see my experiments."
By 1960 it had been licensed for manufacture in the United States and quickly consigned Salk’s vaccine to oblivion, both here and abroad.
Still, despite the haggling over which vaccine was superior, both shared a frightening defect not discovered until 1960. In that year, Dr. B. E. Eddy found that extracts of the monkey kidney-cell cultures used to grow poliovirus induced malignant tumors in newborn hamsters. Two other virologists, Dr. B. H. Sweet and Dr. M. R. Hilleman, soon were able to pinpoint a virus, SV 40, as the cancer-causing agent. By this time, millions of children had received polio vaccine contaminated with SV 40 virus, and there was no way of knowing whether medical science had conquered polio at the risk of provoking a new affliction.
Не стоит забывать и доктора Копровски, испытывавшего вакцину в Конго. Некоторые до сих пор думают, что его эксперименты подарили нам СПИД.
aabad обсуждают исследование течения сифилиса без лечения в Tuskegee. Забавно, никто не упомянул о гораздо более интересном эксперименте осуществлённом американцами в СССР в конце 50-х. Когда пришло время тестировать вакцину против полиомиелита, Альберт Сабин вспомнил, где он провёл детство.Sabin soon arranged for mass testing in what turned out to be an ideal spot, the Soviet Union. The powerful government control over all aspects of Russian life, he knew, was sure to make for a perfectly executed field trial.
Yet why should the Russian government submit its subjects to such an experiment?
"Well, I'll tell you," Sabin explained to an interviewer; "before 1954, they used to say in the Soviet Union, `Under our socialist health system, we don't get polio the way they do in capitalist countries.' Then, all of a sudden, their turn came. They began to have big epidemics, 18,000-20,000 paralytic cases a year, and they were frightened. I knew it, and I invited them to Cincinnati to see my experiments."
By 1960 it had been licensed for manufacture in the United States and quickly consigned Salk’s vaccine to oblivion, both here and abroad.
Still, despite the haggling over which vaccine was superior, both shared a frightening defect not discovered until 1960. In that year, Dr. B. E. Eddy found that extracts of the monkey kidney-cell cultures used to grow poliovirus induced malignant tumors in newborn hamsters. Two other virologists, Dr. B. H. Sweet and Dr. M. R. Hilleman, soon were able to pinpoint a virus, SV 40, as the cancer-causing agent. By this time, millions of children had received polio vaccine contaminated with SV 40 virus, and there was no way of knowing whether medical science had conquered polio at the risk of provoking a new affliction.
Не стоит забывать и доктора Копровски, испытывавшего вакцину в Конго. Некоторые до сих пор думают, что его эксперименты подарили нам СПИД.
