Later in 1932, Alm�sy's sponsor and travel companion Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton died of acute anterior poliomyelitis contracted within two months of completing the spring 1932 expedition to the Gilf Kebir . ( Robert East-Clayton died, not from a crash-landing as described in " The English Patient " but from an infection possibly picked up during the desert expedition.
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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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