Poliomyelitis Surveillance Report Number 17, May 19, 1955

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• Corporate Authors:
  Communicable Disease Center (U.S.). Poliomyelitis Surveillance Unit.
• Description:
  Dr. John Fox, Tulane University, New Orleans, reports isolation of poliomyelitis virus from the stool of PSU Case No. La-2. Isolation type 2 poliomyelitis virus from the stool of PSU Case No. La-2. Isolationof type 2 virus from two contacts of this Lilly associated case was reported previously.
  
  One new case was accepted today from Arkansas. This eight-year-old female developed meningeal signs without paralysis 24 days after inoculation with Lilly Vaccine. Vaccinated cases total 78 at 12:00 Noon 5-19-55 (Table l).
  
  This week the Fourth Weekly Summary appears on Thursday "because it 8 felt desirable to have the data available for the Expert Committee when it meets on Friday, May 20. In the future daily reports will be issued Monday through Friday with a Weekly Summary on Friday. Information of great urgency, if received over the week-end, will be distributed in a special report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Poliomyelitis/epidemiology Public Health Surveillance
• Series:
  Poliomyelitis Surveillance Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Pages in Document:
  28 pages in various pagings
• Volume:
  17
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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