Infantile Paralysis lay Get Worse
AUCKLAND, Feb, 11. The belief that epidemics of infantile paralysis may get worse in New Zealand before they get better was expressed to an interviewer by Di. ivarl F. Meyer, an outstanding" Unito* Btates niedical research expert, who i attending the Pacilic Science Congres.s "The higher ci vi-lisation gets the more polio, ' ' he said, " At least poli'o. gets worse uiftil vve doctors dd soinc.thing about. it aud 'we had better doi it soon. " Tliere , is /'the ' reassurihg note that , about . 95 per "'ceht.v of "the; polio cases h'ave .no paralysis .complica . tions — they are.like ordihary cold's aud; the patients get "salted" or immun-i Lsed without kuowing they are polio patients. "Even .^with diagnosed, .•ases, " Dr. Meye^ ^eclared, ." we piii 75 per cent. of tlie patients back on their feet without- vestigial troubles. Dr. Meyer and his associates are .vorking full blast on polio research in Jalifornia where there were , 6001. xnown. cases lgs;t • year., Their ahaiiij task'is that of P.epajmtiug the. vari'otls strains of the disease. • Dr,.' Meyer is very interested in New Zeaiahd' fesetweh on s-iiiiilar-lines. — — ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 7
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