Poliomyelitis Incidence in the Soviet Union in 1960

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IN VIEW OF recent reports in the public press of the extensive use of oral poliomyelitis vaccine in the U.S.S.R. in 1960, I have had many inquiries from physicians and public health officers as to whether I had any precise information on what was done and what happened. On Jan. 18, 1961, Professor M. P. Chumakov, director of the Moscow Institute for Poliomyelitis Research of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences, sent me the accompanying brief, preliminary report on what happened in the U.S.S.R. in 1960 and what they are planning to do in 1961. I should like to point out that the "reported cases of all forms of poliomyelitis," shown in the graph, are based on clinical reports received by the health services, and do not represent the actual incidence of confirmed cases of poliomyelitis, not even the number of cases with persistent paralysis. In Cincinnati, Czechoslovakia, and

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