POLIOMYELITIS IN CANADIAN ESKIMOS

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Medical Sciences
• Main Authors: Clark, Eina M., Rhodes, A. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1951
• Subjects: General Medicine; Arctic; Lansing; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjms51-027; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjms51-027

This paper describes further laboratory studies undertaken to investigate the immunological aspects of the outbreak of poliomyelitis in the Canadian Eastern Arctic in the winter of 1948-1949. No evidence was found that any of three strains of virus recovered from Eskimos was pathogenic for cotton ra...