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ACCORDING to Mr. B. O. Connon, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (J. Roy. Inst. Pub. Health and Hyg., Feb.), the 1944 epidemic in the United States has been the second worst in the recorded history of the disease. The seven States most severely menaced are New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. The peak of the epidemic was reached in the week ending September 2, when 1,683 cases were reported.
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Poliomyelitis Epidemic in America. Nature 155, 423 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155423c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155423c0