Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
...polio is spread is still the No. 1 puzzle. Because the polio virus is found in large amounts in the digestive tract, investigators now think that its chief invasion route is the mouth, probably in contaminated food. Flies are known to carry the virus. But dusting cities with DDT does not seem to stop epidemics...
...Because polio has long been relatively rare in Britain (there were minor outbreaks in 1926 and 1938), the people are highly vulnerable to the virus. The epidemic that began in mid-June spread quickly. While the Ministry of Health talked soothingly to keep down public alarm, medical officers quietly shut swimming pools and children's cinema shows, called off children's holiday trips, discouraged public meetings. But the epidemic has continued to rise, and doctors fear that it has not yet reached its peak...
...meantime, the four-year polio epidemic-which last year mounted to more than 25,000 cases, close to 1916's record-seemed to be easing up. The polio toll so far this year (2,235 cases) is less than one-third of the total for the same period...
...most heavily backed polio research centers in the U.S., the Hopkins unit has received $732,500 from the National Foundation for Infanuie Paralysis, is about to get $425,000 more...