Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journal of the American Dental Association they told of putting a little virus in the tooth cavities of monkeys. They succeeded in producing paralysis in one monkey and nerve damage in several others. From two areas in last year's polio epidemic they got additional evidence: 70% of the victims in three North Carolina treatment centers had such bad cavities that pulp was exposed, while only 27% of well children in the same districts had serious cavities; in Baltimore 65% of polio patients had exposed pulp, compared with only 24% of well children...
Findings of other recent delvings into the still unsolved mystery of how polio spreads...
...Flies in the home of a polio victim may infect exposed food. In Science, Yale researchers reported finding polio virus in the stools of two laboratory chimpanzees after the apes were fed sliced bananas which had been exposed in the homes of North Carolina polio victims...
...this afternoon he was going to a barbecue. He had told his friend Jess Long, Georgia peach grower, to "make some of that good Brunswick stew of yours." In the evening, the polio patients at his beloved Warm Springs Foundation were going to give a minstrel show for him. He was looking forward to both affairs...
...President's invariable custom, whenever he left Warm Springs, to drive past the Foundation administration building and shout goodbye to the polio patients in wheelchairs...