1934 Los Angeles atypical polio outbreak

The 1934 Los Angeles County Hospital epidemic is the first known recorded cluster outbreak resulting in what is now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Publications
Epidemiological Study Of An Epidemic, Diagnosed As Poliomyelitis, Occurring Among The Personnel Of The Los Angeles County General Hospital During The Summer Of 1934 - ''Public Health Bulletin no.231-240 1936-1938 By: A.G. Gilliam

Observations On The Epidemic Of Polio-Encephalitis In Los Angeles, 1934* - California And Western Medicine By: E.C. Rosenow, MD; F.R. Heilman, M.D.; and C.H. Pettet, M.D.

Poliomyelitis-The Los Angeles Epidemic of 1934* - Western Journal of Medicine By: R.W. Meals, MD; Vernon F. Hauser, MD; and Albert G. Bower, MD

Use of Serum and the Routine and Experimental Laboratory Findings in the 1934 Poliomyelitis Epidemic* - American Public Health Association By: John F. Kessel, Anson S. Hoyt and Roy T. Fisk

Newspaper articles:
Los Angeles Polio Epidemic Decreases - Madera Tribune, Number 55, 6 July 1934

Infantile Paralysis Development Shown - Madera Tribune, Number 58, 10 July 1934  Editor's Note:  This article reveals that persons over the age of 20 were being described as having "Infantile Paralysis".

Infantile Paralysis Outbreak Not Serious - Madera Tribune, Number 55, 6 July 1934

Infantile Paralysis Peak Reported Passed - Madera Tribune, Number 56, 7 July 1934

Real Heros of Paralysis Epidemic - Healdburg Tribune, Number 290, 11 October 1934    Editor's Note:  GREAT PHOTOGRAPH OF SICK NURSES!

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 * Los Angeles County Hospital, Wikipedia