Serum Tests On Convicts Appear Success So Far

Serum Tests On Convicts Appear Success So Far

When this article was published, it had been a few months since the testing on Schmidt and Erickson began. By this time, both inmates had received two rounds of the vaccine and had been injected with tuberculosis germs, enough, the article says, "to cause any man, not inoculated against them, to contract the disease". Although Schmidt briefly fell ill, and Erickson displayed some minor side effects, neither had contracted tuberculosis, and both were in overall good health.

The high volume of letters the prison physician reportedly received indicates that the vaccine research reached high levels of salience in the public before the tests were even complete.

Cañon City Daily Record

July 31, 1934

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