SURVEILLANCE REPORT – No. 11

Date

May 12th, 1955

Description

“Poliomyelitis Surveillance Report: No. 11,” a CDC report summarizing the latest available polio data as of May 12th, 1955. Produced by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, Bureau of State Services, Communicable Disease Center (CDC), Poliomyelitis Surveillance Unit (PSU).

Including: Three or more Cutter lab associated polio cases, one of which proved fatal, as well as a possible association between a vaccine distributed by Wyeth Labs and a case of polio involving limb paralysis which progressed to quadriplegia.

Source

The U. S. National Archives and Records Administration at Atlanta, 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260, www.archives.gov/