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Adults With High Living Standard
Found More Susceptible To Polio
United Press Scijce Editor
By DELOS SMITH
New York U.R) f Science
has verified a long-held suspic
ion that adults enjoying high
standards of living can be al
most as susceptible to polio as
their children.
A tightly "localized" polio
epidemic in New Canaan, Conn.,
an expensive exclusive outer
suburb of New YorkCfcity, pro
vided an ideal opportunity for a
thorough, scientific investiga
tion. (3)r. Joseph L. Melnick, profes
sor of epidemiology, Yale Uni
versity School of Medicine,
seized the opportunity. He and
his associate!. Drs. James P.
Nolan anoXBarbara H. Wilmer,
have madetheir report.
The epidemic began with a
four-year-old girl, one of 35
pupils in ifj nursery school. She
missed snjJol beginning June 4,
1954, because she was ill with I The doctors began to look under
fqver but no one suspected polio
at the time. Within two weeks
four of her classmates and the
mother of one of them were
down with polio.
There were two more cases
in June and five more during
the 1 first week of July which
was the "peak week" of the lo
calized epidemic. The last case
occurred in late July.
Contact Was Shown
There were 16 cases in all,
six of them in adults. Four of
the children were from the nur
sery school; the remainder were
their brothers or sisters. Each
adult was the parent of at least
two small children and with al
most all of them, a "contact"
was easily shown either with
an earlier case of polio or with
a member of a family in which
there was such a case.
These were the surface facts.
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the surface. They looked for
polio virus in the gastrointes
tinal tracts of all 35 of the school
children and of their parents,
brothers, sisters, and any other
household "contacts." In the 16
patients, viruses were found in
83 per cent. In the 79 contracts,
viruses were found in 54 per
cent.
The doctors took blood sam
ples. The presence of high anti
body levels would indicate a
recent polio infection. The blood
of 40 per cent of the contacts
showed those levels. The obvious
suggestion was that there had
been a number of slight illnesses
during the period of the epi
demic which had been "abortive
or even non-paralytic poliomyel
itis." The scientific investigat
ors found that there had been
in 16 children and 40 adults.
Spread By Contact
The scientists were impressed
by "the extremely invasive na
ture of poliomyelitis in a group
of susceptible persons, regard
less of age." New Canaan's high
living standards meant that the
virus was not spread by poor
hygiene, but by contact.
But these very circumstances
could also make adults of such
"high socio-economic groups"
more susceptible than other
adults. Adults have acquired im
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eases by having had brushes
with their viruses. But adults
who have always lived in "an
excellent sanitary environment"
like New Canaan's would have
had fewer brushes with fewer
viruses.
Among epidemiologists there
is some question as to the neces
sity of vaccinating adults with
the Salk vaccine. This and other
implications the scientists left
the readers of their report
which was published by the New
England Journal of Medicine
to ponder.
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