The last cases of paralytic poliomyelitis caused by endemic transmission of wild virus in the United States occurred in 1979, with an outbreak among the Amish in several Midwest states.
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He contracted paralytic poliomyelitis when he was just two months old and spent much of his early infancy and childhood as a patient at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
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This leads to the development of paralytic poliomyelitis, the various forms of which ( spinal, bulbar, and bulbospinal ) vary only with the amount of neuronal damage and inflammation that occurs, and the region of the CNS affected.
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By 1950, the peak age incidence of paralytic poliomyelitis in the United States had shifted from infants to children aged 5 to 9 years; about one-third of the cases were reported in persons over 15 years of age.
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According to American historian William O'Neill, " Paralytic poliomyelitis ( its formal name ) was, if not the most serious, easily the most frightening public health problem of the postwar era . " He noted that the epidemics kept getting worse and its victims were usually children.
