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== Onset == Four days after training commenced the troops were all wet through on a field exercise. Two days later, a case of [[poliomyelitis]] occurred among them, this case was at once diagnosed and removed to hospital. This was followed within twelve days by six cases with [[meningeal]] and [[myelitic]] symptoms, 16 purely meningeal cases and 108 with symptoms involving inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. The incubation period was 4-7 days.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal | last = Stahel | first = H | date = July 1937 | title = An Epidemie of Poliomyelitis among Swiss Troops at Erstfeld from July 18 to 30, 1937, with a Large Number of Abortive Cases |url =https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19382701151 | journal = Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift | volume = 68 | pages = 86-91|via=}}</ref>
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