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- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1955 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1955.02960140033005
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Recent progress in poliomyelitis research has culminated, after a decade of work, in the development of a useful vaccine1 to combat paralysis. The vaccine is the first, and currently the only, control measure usable on a large scale that appears to provide substantial immunity against the paralytic form of this disease. Poliomyelitis is a nationwide health problem that has increased in size and significance in recent years. It is one of the few communicable diseases, in fact, that has shown a rise in both incidence and death rates in the United States during the past two decades. Nonetheless, the incidence of clinical poliomyelitis today is considerably less than that of many other infectious diseases. In 1954, the third highest year of reported poliomyelitis incidence in United States history, 38,741 cases of poliomyelitis (including both paralytic and nonparalytic cases) were reported to the Public Health Service. In the same year
Journal
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Aug 6, 1955