Acute epidemic poliomyelitis

A Local Epidemic of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis

The Etiology of Epidemic Poliomyelitis

Streptococci have been isolated from the central nervous system of monkeys dead of poliomyelitis. Streptococci have also been isolated from the central nervous system of monkeys dead of other causes as well as from the brains of normal rabbits. Streptococci isolated from poliomyelitic monkeys do not differ from those isolated from monkeys and rabbits dead from other causes. An etiological relat...

Epidemic of poliomyelitis in St. Helena.

The 1957 Epidemic of Poliomyelitis in Belfast

D. S. DANE, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), Lecturer in Microbiology, Queen's University, Belfast with MOYA BRIGGS, B.Sc., and R. T. NELSON, A.I.M.L.T. IN the summer and early autumn of 1957 there was an epidemic of type 1 poliomyelitis in Northern Ireland. The principle area involved was Belfast County Borough (population approximately 450,000), where there were 162 cases of acute poliomyelitis, of whic...

Acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Diagnosis Minor Illness. In about 40 per cent. of paralytic cases the ' minor illness ' is the first symptom of poliomyelitis. It is characterized by malaise, fever, sore throat, headache and catarrh, and usually lasts about 48 hours. It is absent in more than half the paralytic cases, and when present it is so non-specific that it can only be diagnosed in retrospect. The suggestion has been ma...