REIS v. PFIZER, INC.


61 A.D.2d 777 (1978)

Bernard Reis, Respondent, v. Pfizer, Inc., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

February 27, 1978


Plaintiff's three-month-old son was given defendant's oral polio vaccine in October, 1966 and January, 1967. In February, 1967 plaintiff developed poliomyelitis and was hospitalized until December, 1967, and the illness culminated in permanent crippling. Plaintiff alleges that the Federal Communicable Disease Center found his illness to be vaccine-induced contact poliomyelitis, and though he is not named, the case described in their annual survey for 1967 may well be his...

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