Epidemiologic Data in the Poliomyelitis Epidemic in New York State

Nicoll, Matthias

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1917.01910080002001

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“…The color scale is inverse hyperbolic sign-transformed, resulting in no missing values for zeros; data for 1917 are missing in the original source. The maximum values for polio occurred in 1916, associated with the huge epidemic in the northeast (Nicoll, 1917;Lavinder et al, 1918). Heatmaps for both diseases are constructed using the same maximal possible value: 83.6 per 100,000 (corresponding to polio in 1916, for white male infants).…”

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Unraveling the social ecology of polio

Mauricio¹,

Noymer²

2019

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Using data on poliomyelitis and typhoid fever mortality in the United States, 1914–69, we test competing theories for the twentieth century expansion of polio. We analyze data stratified by age, sex, and race. We show that some of the seemingly-paradoxical aspects of the data — principally, that whites had higher polio death rates than nonwhites but lower typhoid death rates — are consistent with the polio hygiene hypothesis. Data on racial differences show that the hygiene hypothesis is necessary and sufficient to explain patterns of polio mortality in the United States. Epidemiological phenomena are best understood in their social context.

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Unraveling the social ecology of polio

Mauricio¹,

Noymer²

2019

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“…as already mentioned, with sore throat on April 3 to 5, patient I (4). 4. The second near neighbor had three children aged 10, 7 and 4, all of whom were ill between May 12 and May 28 with fever, upset stomach and headache lasting two to three days.…”

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“…epidemic was ushered into a new community by several simultaneous, widely separated cases having no possible direct contact with one another. 4 The obvious conclu¬ sion was that during an epidemic period the reservoir for the spread of the virus was not confined to the paralytic cases. Today this a well accepted fact.…”

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