EPIDEMIC POLIOMYELITIS IN URUGUAY

Poliomyelitis in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile

It is a special pleasure for me to contribute something, even something so meager as the present communication, to the number of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine issued in honor of John R. Paul. It is 30 years since we first met and began, each in his own way, to study certain aspects of poliomyelitis. Together we have passed through an exciting era in the development of knowledge of th...

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...

A Local Epidemic of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis