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Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019

The reported figures include both wild- and vaccine-derived type polio infections that occurred indigenously and as imported cases. (Source: Dattani S, Spooner F, Ochmann S, Roser M. Polio. First published in November 2017, and last updated in May 2024. Available at: ourworldindata.org/polio. Accessed May 2024. Based on U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and World Health Organization. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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  • Nonparalytic polio
  • Paralytic polio
  • Polioencephalitis
  • Post-polio progressive muscular atrophy
  • Post-polio syndrome
  • Spinal paralytic polio