During the past year in the United States, several thousand individuals, mostly children, have received subcutaneous and intracutaneous injections of treated poliomyelitis virus in the hope of acquiring immunity against the natural disease. The two different forms of treatment to which the virus was subjected were intended to render it innocuous when thus used as a vaccine. Through those responsible for the production of these vaccines, through several health officers and through others, word has come to the United States Public Health Service of the development, at suggestive intervals following these injections, of cases of paralytic poliomyelitis with high fatality. Though possibly subject to some correction, it is believed that the following statements represent closely the facts in each case: A boy, aged 5 years, had his first symptoms of poliomyelitis six days after receiving the second dose of vaccine A in the left arm,

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Points to Be Considered in Case of a Poliomyelitis Epidemic

Public Health Reports (1896-1970) (1929)

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United States Lags in Fight against Smallpox

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The Transmission of Influenza

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Bulletin de l'Office International d'Hygiene Publique (1928)

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AN IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM

JAMA (1928)

J. P. Leake

To the Editor:

—The problem offered by the query from Pennsylvania (The Journal, January 7, p. 51) relative to immunization of nurses is an interesting one in practical immunology, and in part, at least, is not infrequently presented to the physician. Carrying out the same general order as that given inThe Journal, and with the same number of visits to the physician (seventeen), the following scheme would serve to give the most favorable days for observation and for reading the various reactions: Day zero: Schick test on the right upper arm and control on the left upper arm, using the flexor surface 2 inches above the fold of the elbow. Day 2: (Two days later): Smallpox vaccination on the left upper arm over the insertion of the deltoid muscle (not on the leg). Day 3: Dick test on the right forearm, control on the left forearm, using the flexor

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The Diagnosis of Poliomyelitis

Public Health Reports (1896-1970) (1917)

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ISOLATION OF THE ANTHRAX BACILLUS FROM SHAVING BRUSHES

American journal of public health (1919)

J. P. Leake Arthur Lederer

ISOLATION OF THE ANTHRAX BACILLUS FROM SHAVING BRUSHES James P. Leake, and Arthur Lederer CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.9.2.114 Published Online: August 30, 2011

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