SURVEILLANCE REPORT – No. 8

Date

May 9th, 1955

Description

“Poliomyelitis Surveillance Report: No. 8,” a CDC report summarizing the latest available polio data as of May 6th, 1955. Produced by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center (CDC), Epidemiology Branch, Poliomyelitis Surveillance Unit.

Including: Telephone survey shows that labs running large specimen studies have not found active polio. First case of vaccine-associated polio from Wyeth laboratories appears in Pennsylvania.

Source

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