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!

Learn more

 * Los Angeles County Hospital, Wikipedia