American Statistical Association (ASA)

In the 1916 epidemic, Pennsylvania established border controls with New Jersey to check children for symptoms. If the polio virus caused deaths at the same rate as it did in the early 1950s, about 1,500 children would die each year. This would make polio the second leading cause of child (non-infant) death, behind only accidents and ahead of ... ................
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