Of children who received the vaccine, 40, 000 developed abortive poliomyelitis ( a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system ), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis and of these, five children died from polio.
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Two towns in Switzerland had outbreaks of " abortive poliomyelitis " in 1937, and 73 Swiss soldiers were given the same diagnosis in 1939 . Outbreaks in Iceland were called " Akureyri disease " or " simulating poliomyelitis " and were later called " Iceland disease . " 800 people in Adelaide, Australia became ill during 1949-1951 with a disease " resembling poliomyelitis . " Two smaller clusters in the United States during 1950 were diagnosed as " Epidemic neuromyasthenia " and " resembling Iceland disease simulating acute anterior poliomyelitis . " Additional outbreaks of poliomyelitis-like " mystery diseases " occurred from the 1950s through the 1980s in Denmark, the United States, South Africa, and Australia, among others.
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