Status of Health Services in Micronesia since the 1963 Poliomyelitis Epidemic
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Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis and Allied Diseases, 1963 †**
A striking feature of paralytic poliomyelitis has been its ever changing epidemiology. In the past, changes seem to have come about in the course of natural evolution from an endemic to an epidemic pattern, first in one part of the world, and then in another. At present, the use of effective vaccines for prevention and for greatly reducing circulation of wild strains of the virus, have apparent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4593711