Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific expedition headed by Yale's Dr. John R. Paul sprayed DDT on the polio-ridden city of Rockford, Ill. (147 cases, 17 deaths since July 1), to find out whether killing all the flies would prevent the spread of infantile paralysis...
...will use the old tools on the first models-which, in answer to frantic appeals from the nation's doctors, may be converted to special, G.E.-developed heaters for polio packs. There will be no layoffs while G.E. tries to gather its raw stocks, or hurry its sub-assemblers. For months, G.E.'s huge home laundry sales force, acting solely as expediters, has been out breaking reconversion bottlenecks...
...first six months of 1945, polio cases soared 26% over 1944, the worst epidemic year since 1916. Since June, the case rate has tapered...
...cases, compared with 462 in the same week last year. ¶ Texas led all other states in this year's total of polio cases (357). Hardest hit was Harris County (which includes Houston), which in one week in June reported 19 new cases...
...Polio is usually transmitted by personal contact, asserted Birmingham's Dr. Albert Casey in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. After tracing the sources of So cases in rural Alabama, he concluded that in that locality 1) the disease spread radially from the initial case, enlarging its circle at a rate of about a mile every ten days; 2) no outside agents such as rodents, food or insects seemed to be involved...