Article: Follow-up on poliomyelitis - United States, Canada, Netherlands.(Epidemiologic Notes and Reports)(reprinted from the July 27, 1979 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)

No new cases of epidemic-associated poliomyelitis have been reported to CDC during the past month. Two cases previously reported as suspected have now been confirmed, bringing the 1979 total of confirmed cases in the United States and Canada to 17. Fourteen of these cases (all paralytic) occurred in unvaccinated Amish persons; 2 (both nonparalytic) were in unvaccinated non-Amish persons, who lived in or near an Amish area; and 1 case (paralytic) occurred in an Amish infant, who received oral poliovirus vaccine 5 days before becoming ill. In the latter case, the patient had laboratory evidence of recent infection with both type 1 and type 2 poliovirus; the other 16 cases ...

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