RT Journal
A1 ENGELHARD WE, BANCROFT PM
T1 SErological studies of the poliomyelitis epidemic in huskerville, neb.
JF A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
JO A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1959
FD April 1
VO 97
IS 4
SP 409
OP 417
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010411005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010411005
AB This report describes the distribution of Types 1, 2, and 3 poliomyelitis antibodies in the sera of residents of Huskerville, Neb., after the severe epidemic of 1952. A detailed description of this epidemic was reported elsewhere.1The Huskerville experience is of particular epidemiological importance because first, paralytic poliomyelitis was sharply limited in its geographic distribution; second, the greatly simplified physical facilities and social structure of the community made it possible to discern environmental factors and to relate them to the distribution of the clinical disease; third, factors within the community itself appeared to be decisive in determining the distribution of clinical disease and the intensity of virus invasion.The epidemic of poliomyelitis was explosive, running its course in five weeks with an attack rate of paralytic disease (Table 1) of 20 per 1,142 population. Confirmed clinical paralytic and nonparalytic cases numbered 51 per 1,142 (Tables 1 and 2).There