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In the 1940s and early 1950s, western Europe and North America lived through summertime terrors brought about by nearly annual polio epidemics. At its peak incidence in the United States, in 1952, approximately 21,000 cases of paralytic polio (a rate of 13.6 cases per 100,000 population) were recorded.
Sep 4, 2024
Oct 19, 2023 · An epidemic in the 1950s in the UK and beyond. Did you know that Great British Bake Off's Mary Berry contracted polio at the age of 13 and had to spend three ...
Jul 26, 2024 · Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, polio paralyzed more than 15,000 people each year in the United States. Thanks to widespread polio ...
Aug 17, 2024 · The disease was very well publicized during the polio epidemics of the 1950s, with extensive media coverage of any scientific advancements that might lead to a ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 ...
Nov 28, 2023 · In the pre-vaccine era, virtually all children were infected with polio virus early in life. ... 1950s and has significantly reduced the incidence of ...
Aug 28, 2024 · The worst epidemic of polio occurred in 1952 where 57,628 cases were reported with 21,000 cases resulting in paralysis and 3,000 in death. One treatment for ...
Aug 31, 2024 · Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 ...
May 1, 2024 · Polio infections peaked in the United States in 1952, with more than 21,000 paralytic cases. Following introduction of effective vaccines in 1955 (inactivated ...
Sep 2, 2024 · But the introduction of mass vaccination campaigns since the 1950s has seen outbreaks severely curtailed. Europe, for example, was declared polio-free in 2002.
