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Chelation death: K. Kane and V. Linn, "Boy Dies During Autism Treatment,"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, August 25, 2005.

Hilleman memo: M. Levin, "'91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots,"
Los Angeles Times
, February 8, 2005.

Thimerosal-autism studies: A. Hviid, M. Stellfeld, J. Wohlfahrt, and M. Melbye, "Association between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine and Autism,"
Journal of the American Medical Association
290 (2003): 1763–66; T. Verstraeten, R. L. Davis, F. DeStefano, et al., "Safety of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines: A Two-Phased Study of Computerized Health Maintenance Organization Databases,"
Pediatrics
112 (2003): 1039–48; J. Heron, J. Golding, and ALSPAC Study Team, "Thimerosal Exposure in Infants and Developmental Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study in the United Kingdom Does Not Show a Causal Association,"
Pediatrics
114 (2004): 577–83; N. Andrews, E. Miller, A. Grant, et al., "Thimerosal Exposure in Infants and Developmental Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study in the United Kingdom Does Not Show a Causal Association,"
Pediatrics
, 114 (2004):584–91; S. Parker, B. Schwartz, J. Todd, and L. K. Pickering, "Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Critical Review of Published Original Data,"
Pediatrics
114 (2004): 793–804; E. Fombonne, R. Zakarian, A. Bennett, et al., "Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Prevalence and Links with Immunization,"
Pediatrics
118 (2006): 139–50.

Choosing not to afford vaccines: J. Cohen, "U.S. Vaccine Supply Falls Seriously Short,"
Science
295 (2002): 1998–2001; National Vaccine Advisory Committee, "Strengthening the Supply of Routinely Recommended Vaccines in the United States: Recommendations of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee,"
Journal of the American Medical Association
290 (2003): 3122–28; Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States, Institute of Medicine,
Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability
(Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2004); S. Stokley, K. M. Shaw, L. Barker, J. M. Santoli, and A. Shefer, "Impact of State Vaccine Financing Policy on Uptake of Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine,"
American Journal of Public Health
96 (2006): 1308–13.

John Q
: New Line Cinema, 2002

HPV vaccine controversy: J. Guyton, The coming storm over a cancer vaccine,
Fortune
, October 31, 2005.

Vaccine profitability: S. Garber,
Product Liability and the Economics of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
(Santa Monica: RAND, Institute for Civil Justice, 1993); R. Manning: "Economic Impact of Product Liability in U.S. Prescription Drug Markets,"
International Business Lawyer
March 2001, and "Changing Rules in Tort Law and the Market for Childhood Vaccines,"
Journal of Law and Economics
37 (1994): 247–75; Institute of Medicine,
Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability
(Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2004); J. M. Wood, "Litigation Could Make Vaccines Extinct,"
The Scientist
, January 19, 2004; T. Ginsberg, "Making Vaccines Worth It,"
Philadelphia Inquirer
, September 24, 2006.

Measles outbreak in John Hancock Tower: R. Know, "Measles Outbreak Shows Even Vaccinated at Risk,"
National Public Radio
, June 21, 2006.

Mumps epidemic in Midwest: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Mumps Epidemic: Iowa, 2006,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
55(2006): 366–68.

Polio outbreak in The Netherlands: P. M. Oostvogel, J. K. van Wijngaarden, H. G. van der Avoort, et al., "Poliomyelitis Outbreak in an Unvaccinated Community in The Netherlands: 1992–93,"
Lancet
344 (1994): 665–70; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Follow-Up on Poliomyelitis—United States, Canada, Netherlands: 1979,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
46 (1997): 1195–99; H. C. Rumke, P. M. Oostvogel, G. Van Steenis, and A. M. Van Loon, "Poliomyelitis in The Netherlands: A Review of Population Immunity and Exposure between the Epidemics in 1978 and 1992,"
Epidemiology and Infection
115 (1995): 289–98; H. Bijkerk, "Poliomyelitis Epidemic in the Netherlands: 1978,"
Developments in Biological Standardization
43 (1979): 195–206.

Diphtheria outbreak in the former Soviet Union: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Update: Diphtheria Epidemic—New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, January 1995–March 1996,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
45 (1996): 693–97.

Unrecognized Genius

Strauss quote: Walter Strauss, personal communication, September 20,
2006.

Leningrad and Urabe strains of mumps vaccine: Plotkin and Orenstein,
Vaccines
.

Hilleman obituary: L. Altman, "Maurice Hilleman, Master in Creating Vaccines, Dies at 85,"
New York Times
, April 12, 2005.

Fauci quote: "The Vaccine Hunter," BBC Radio 4, producer Pauline Moffatt, June 21, 2006.

Strauss quote: Walter Strauss, personal communication, September 20,
2006.

Röntgen: B. Goldsmith,
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2005).

Sam Katz correction of
Rolling Stone
article: Salon. com, July 21, 2005.

Salk and patent: J. Smith,
Patenting the Sun
.

Twister
: Warner Brothers, 1996.

Robert Gallo quote: "The Vaccine Hunter," BBC Radio 4, producer Pauline Moffatt, June 21, 2006.

Lorraine Hilleman quote: Interview, September 14, 2006.

Jeryl Hilleman regarding photograph: Interview, March 11, 2005.

Szmuness paper: W. Szmuness, C. D. Stevens, E. J. Harley, E. A. Zang, W. R. Oleszko, D. C. William, R. Sadovsky, J. M. Morrison, and A. Kellner, "Hepatitis B Vaccine: Demonstration of Efficacy in a Controlled Clinical Trial in a High-Risk Population in the United States,"
New England Journal of Medicine
303 (1980): 833–41.

Measles outbreak, 1989–1991: Centers for Disease Control, "Public-Sector Vaccination Efforts in Response to the Resurgence of Measles among Preschool-Aged Children: United States, 1989–1991,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
41 (1992): 522–25.

Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize: "Alfred Nobel: The Man," http:// www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/427_33.html; "Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel," Nobelprize.org, http://nobelprize.org.nobel/alfred-nobel/ biographical/will/ index.html; "Alfred Nobel," http://en.wikipedia.irg/wiki/ Alfred_Nobel.

Salk and Eisenhower: J. Smith,
Patenting the Sun
.

Salk obituary: R. Dulbecco, "Jonas Salk,"
Nature
376 (1995): 216.

Undeserving Nobel Prizes: L. K. Altman, "Alfred Nobel and the Prize That Almost Didn't Happen,"
New York Times
, September 26, 2006.

Fauci quote: "The Vaccine Hunter," BBC Radio 4, producer Pauline Moffatt, June 21, 2006.

Epilogue

Roy Vagelos, Anthony Fauci, Lorraine Hilleman, Jeryl Hilleman, and Kirsten Hilleman all spoke at the symposium in Hilleman's honor at the American Philosophical Society, January 26, 2005.

American Philosophical Society: American Philosophical Society, http://www. amphilsoc.org; American Philosophical Society Library and Museum, http:// www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_philo.htm.

Heat-shock proteins: E. Gilboa, "The Promise of Cancer Vaccines,"
Nature Reviews
4 (2004): 401–11; R. Suto and P. K. Srivastava, "A Mechanism for the Specific Immunogenicity of Heat-Shock Protein–Chaperoned Peptides,"
Science
269 (1995): 1585–88; A. Hoos and D. L. Levey, "Vaccination with Heat-Shock Protein-Peptide Complexes: From Basic Science to Clinical Applications,"
Expert Reviews of Vaccines
2 (2003): 369–79; P. K. Srivastava and M. R. Das, "Serologically Unique Surface Antigen of a Rat Hepatoma Is Also Its Tumor-Associated Transplant Antigen,"
International Journal of Cancer
33 (1984): 417–22.

"Pass around a cup" quote: H. Collins, "The Man Who Changed Your Life,"
Philadelphia Inquirer
, August 29, 1999.

Faulkner quote: "William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1950," http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/ faulkner/faulkner.html.

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

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New York: Viking, 2004.

Blumberg, Baruch.
Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Bookchin, Debbie, and Jim Schumacher.
The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Carter, Richard.
Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk.
New York: Trident Press 1966.

Collins, Robert.
Ernest William Goodpasture: Scientist, Scholar, Gentleman.
Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002.

Debré, Patrice.
Louis Pasteur.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

De Kruif, Paul.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1926.

Etheridge, Elizabeth.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Fitzpatrick, Michael.
MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know.
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Galambos, Louis, and Jane Eliot Sewell.
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Geison, Gerald.
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Hayflick, Leonard.
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Hilts, Philip.
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Hilts, Philip.
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—.
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Lax, Eric.
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Leuchtenburg, William.
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McNeill, William.
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Park, Robert.
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Radetsky, Peter.
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Rothman, David, and Sheila Rothman.
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Schreibman, Laura.
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Shorter, Edward.
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Smith, Jane.
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Smith, Page, and Charles Daniel.
The Chicken Book.
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Tucker, Jonathan.
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