Abstract
In records of 1,321 cases of poliomyelitis in the city of Los Angeles in 1948, notation was made as to whether or not the patient had been vaccinated against smallpox or had received an injection of one kind or another in the period preceding the onset of poliomyelitis.
In children under 12 years of age, the incidence of poliomyelitis was slightly higher among those who had had recent vaccination or injection than among those who had not, and the incidence of paralysis was slightly greater also. However, the disparities were not considered statistically significant. They were not wide enough to warrant withholding immunization against other serious diseases on the strength of the possibility that in so doing a slight reduction in the incidence of crippling poliomyelitis might be effected.
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