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Exhibit 108

Oversight findings and departures of officials after the Cutter incident

Exhibit 108 ยท Reference summary

Oversight findings and departures of officials after the Cutter incident

Cutter was among the manufacturers recommended for a license on 12 April 1955, the day the Francis field-trial results were announced. A June 1955 congressional hearing concluded that the problem was primarily a lack of scrutiny by the NIH Laboratory of Biologics Control. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby stepped down and NIH director William H. Sebrell Jr. resigned.

Source
Wikipedia, "Cutter Laboratories", citing the June 1955 congressional hearing and Offit (2005)
Date
1955
Grade
Reported
Document
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Secondary. No source found that Surgeon General Leonard Scheele was dismissed.

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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.