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In 1916 there were 27,363 cases of paralytic polio and 7,130 polio related deaths in the United States. The number of cases dropped substantially in 1917, and the U.S. would not see such high rates of infection again until 1948.
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Apr 24, 2024 · The nearly seventy years of fear, illness, and deaths brought about by polio convinced several generations of the efficacy of vaccines.
Aug 28, 2024 · An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S. outbreak in 1952 killed more than 3,000.
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Sep 30, 2024 · Polio was one of the most feared childhood diseases of the 20th Century in the U.S. An epidemic in 1916 killed 6,000 people and left 27,000 people paralyzed.
Dec 19, 2023 · By 1916, New York had the country's first polio epidemic. By 1952, there were 57,628 cases recorded in the United States.
Nov 29, 2023 · A 1916 polio epidemic in the United States killed 6,000 people and paralyzed 27,000 more. In the early 1950s, there were more than 20,000 cases of polio each ...
May 22, 2024 · From 1910 to 2019, polio infected more than 585,000 people in the United States alone,1 1 in 200 of which became paralyzed by the disease.
Oct 6, 2024 · A US outbreak in 1916 killed more than 8,000 people; another in 1952 killed 3,000 and resulted in 20,000 cases of paralysis. [9][CDC.
Feb 22, 2024 · This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication ...
Jul 31, 2024 · 1916 New York City polio epidemic · 2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines · 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic ...