Presence of Children in the Household as a Factor in the Incidence of Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Adults

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IN a recent study on poliomyelitis and pregnancy, a relation was observed between the occurrence of poliomyelitis during gestation and parity.1 Regardless of maternal age, clinical infection was more frequent in multiparous than in primiparous women. The association between parity and poliomyelitis appeared to be dependent, in part, on the number of children in the household. However, the relation could not be explored further because no data on the distribution of the general population by family size were available. They have become available since then.Studies of poliomyelitis in households have been conducted by a number of investigators. Some of . . .

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