Poliomyelitis in Pregnancy

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Abstract
SINCE the first report by Aycock,1 in 1941, of an increased incidence of poliomyelitis in pregnancy, numerous articles on this subject have been presented. Previously, poliomyelitis as a complication of pregnancy was apparently rare. Aycock reported only 28 cases from a review of the literature and added 28 from his own experience. He estimated the expectancy of paralytic poliomyelitis as less than 1 out of 1000 cases of poliomyelitis and less than 1 out of 50,000 pregnancies. Gifford and Hullinghorst,2 in 1948, presented a review of 169 cases from the literature and 1 from their own experience. In 1953 Bowers . . .

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