Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paralysis (poliomyelitis) virus was present in the feces of the sixth child. They also found the virus in two groups of cousins with whom the children had come in contact, and in one family of neighborhood playmates-ten children in all. Yet none of these children, though harboring the polio virus, got the disease...
...minor outbreak of infantile paralysis (in Arkansas) may demonstrate something that doctors and parents everywhere very much want to know-how well the Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis works out in an epidemic. To Little Rock, where 25 children were down with polio, rushed a group of physiotherapists and nurses to whom the Australian nurse has been teaching her revolutionary exercise treatment (TIME, June 23, Dec. 15, 1941) in the Minneapolis General Hospital...
...polio virus, he wrote, does not always destroy all the nerve cells leading to the paralyzed muscles-but often sends the muscles into spasm, painful contraction or twitching. If spasm is relieved, the nerve cells which remain alive can substitute for those which have been destroyed. The danger of paralysis lies mainly in allowing spasm to continue...
Last July and August, during polio outbreaks in rural Connecticut and Alabama, and in Cleveland and Atlanta, the doctors trapped thousands of flies in those parts. They mashed up the flies in sterile water or ether, gave it to monkeys in feedings, injections or nosedrops. Down came the monkeys with polio...
...Sabin suggested that these findings may clear up the old mystery of why polio comes in the summer. And they further substantiate earlier theories that the disease comes from eating infected food...