An Institutional Outbreak of Poliomyelitis
- 1 June 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
- Vol. 31 (6) , 593-598
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.31.6.593
Abstract
An outbreak of poliomyelitis occurred in Apr., 1941, in a child-caring institution of a large city which apparently was an isolated outbreak. It showed a high paralytic incidence of 84% and the stools of 2 of 3 cases were positive for the virus when the symptoms were sufficiently atypical as to have rendered the diagnosis doubtful. The use of stool examination as an epidemiological tool is strongly advocated.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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