irrelevant to his efforts. he was weeping as he recounted this. there was nothing wrong with the vaccine. one batch was improperly handled and manufactured. he and others delayed all further testing for weeks. sabe enwas weeping as he remembered that. for in 1983, dr. sabin had contracted a rare disease of his own. surgeons operated, relieved the intense pain and muscle weakness, and then ten days later it came back, ten times worse. enough for him to be yelling and crying virtually all the time. the pain, he said, "made me want to die." dr. albert sabin suddenly remembered that the stopping of the salt vaccines had led to death, death of children. more immediately it led to pain, physical and emotional, for the children and the parents. he said it had not occurred to him then the first thing doctors must do, first thing health care system must do, is stop pain. he vowed to spend the rest of his life relieving pain. his own searing agony and analysis, gradually, inexplicably faded.