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- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
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- Copyright © by the American Public Health Association
- ISSN
- 0090-0036
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- 1541-0048
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Abstract
HAROLD K. FABER, M.D. Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif. pOLIOMYELITIS occupies a place which, when deposited, it can effect of peculiar prominence among the acute infectious diseases which as medical men interested in the problems of public health and preventive medicine it is our task to control---for not only does it 'strike a special terror into the hearts of all parents but the recurrent epidemic waves appear to be rising higher and higher. We in California shall not soon forget the year 1930 when over a period of 7 months this plague spread from one end of the state to the other probably but little affected by our attempts at prevention or control. There are not only many serious gaps in our understanding of epidemic poliomyelitis, but, I believe, some serious and widely accepted misconceptions as to the nature of the infection itself, particularly of the manner in which it enters the body, multiplies, invades and traverses the tissues and eventually produces its characteristic effects. Such faults must necessarily interfere with that clearness of thinking which is fundamental to any proper program of prevention, control and treatment. Some of the questions that
Journal
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Oct 1, 1933