112 - The Great Canadian Vaccine Heist
- Author
- Jeni McDonald and Will Hageman
- Published
- Tue 06 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- None
In 1959 a shipment of 75,000 doses of polio vaccine was stolen before it could be distributed to the people of Montreal, Canada. We discuss the inside job and how it prevented children in desperate need of vaccines from receiving them at the height of the summer polio outbreak.
