Additional Bibliography of References

Updated November 10, 2023

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Selected medical literature and resources

Razum O, Sridhar D, Jahn A et al. Polio: from eradication to systematic, sustained control. BMJ Glob Health. Aug 20, 2019;4(4):e001633.
Berciano J. Additional arguments supporting that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paralytic illness was related to Guillain-Barré syndrome. J Med Biogr. May 2018;26(2):142-143.
Becker BE Sister Elizabeth Kenny and Polio in America: Doyenne or Demagogue in Her Role in Rehabilitation Medicine? PM R. 2018 Feb;10(2):208-217.
Aghamohammadi A, Abolhassani H, Kutukculer N et al. Patients with Primary Immunodeficiencies Are a Reservoir of Poliovirus and a Risk to Polio Eradication. Front Immunol. Jun 13, 2017;8:685.
Goldman AS, Schmalstieg EJ, Dreyer CF et al. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (FDR's) (1882-1945) 1921 neurological disease revisited; the most likely diagnosis remains Guillain-Barré syndrome. J Med Biogr. Nov. 2016;24(4):452-459.
Parker EPK, Molodecky NA, Pons-Salort M et al. Impact of inactivated poliovirus vaccine on mucosal immunity: implications for the polio eradication endgame Expert Rev Vaccines. Aug 3, 2015; 14(8): 1113–1123.
Guo J, Bolivar-Wagers S, Srinivas N et al. Immunodeficiency-related vaccine-derived poliovirus (iVDPV) cases: a systematic review and implications for polio eradication. Mar 3, 2015;33(10):1235-42
Mawdsley SE. Polio provocation: solving a mystery with the help of history. Lancet. Jul 26, 2014;384(9940):300-1.
Wyatt HV. Before the Vaccines: Medical Treatments of Acute Paralysis in the 1916 New York Epidemic of Poliomyelitis Open Microbiol J. 2014; 8: 144–147.
Vashisht N, Puliyel J. Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on. Indian J Med Ethics. Apr-Jun. 2012;9(2):114-7.
Wyatt HV. The 1916 New York City Epidemic of Poliomyelitis: Where Did the Virus Come From? The Open Vaccine Journal 2011, 4: p13-17.
Juskewitch JE, Tapia CJ, Windebank AJ. Lessons from the Salk polio vaccine: methods for and risks of rapid translation. Clin Transl Sci. Aug 2010;3(4):182-5.
Grassly NC, Jafari H, Bahl S et al. Asymptomatic Wild-Type Poliovirus Infection in India among Children with Previous Oral Poliovirus Vaccination. J Infect Dis 2010; 201 (10): 1535-1543.
Wringe A, Fine PE, Sutter RW, Kew OM. Estimating the extent of vaccine-derived poliovirus infection. PLoS One. 2008;3(10):e3433.
Puliyel C, Sathyamala C, Banerji D Protective Efficacy of a Monovalent Oral Type 1 Poliovirus Vaccine Lancet July 2007; 370 (9582): 129.
Sathyamala C. Polio Eradication Programme in India Indian J Med Res May, 2007; 125: 695-696.
Rogers N Race and the Politics of Polio Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes Am J Public Health. 2007 May; 97(5): 784–795.
Martín J Vaccine-derived poliovirus from long term excretors and the end game of polio eradication. 2006 Jun;34(2):117-22
Fitzpatrick M The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis J R Soc Med. 2006 Mar; 99(3): 156.
Cutrone R, Lednicky J, Dunn G et al Some oral poliovirus vaccines were contaminated with infectious SV40 after 1961. Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 15;65(22):10273-9.
Vilchez RA, Butel JS. Emergent Human Pathogen Simian Virus 40 and Its Role in Cancer Clin Microbiol Rev. Jul 2004; 17(3): 495–508.
Goldman AS, Schmalstieg EJ, Freeman DH Jr et al. What was the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paralytic illness? J Med Biogr Nov 2003;11(4):232-40.
Garcea RL, Imperiale MJ. Simian virus 40 infection of humans. J Virol. May 2003;77(9):5039-45.
Institute of Medicine (US) Immunization Safety Review Committee Immunization Safety Review: SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2002.
Letter to the Immunization Safety Review Committee, Michael and Raphaele Horwin, Jul 29, 2002.
Kops SP. Oral polio vaccine and human cancer: a reassessment of SV40 as a contaminant based upon legal documents. Anticancer Res. Nov-Dec 2000;20(6C):4745-9.
Marx A, Glass JD, Sutter RW. Differential Diagnoses of Acute Flaccid Paralysis and It’s Role in Poliomyelitis Surveillance. Epidemiologic Reviews 2000; 22(2): 298-316.
Gromeier M, Wimmer E. Mechanism of injury-provoked poliomyelitis. J Virol. Jun 1998;72(6):5056-60.
Butel JS, Jafar S, Stewart AR, Lednicky JA. Detection of authentic SV40 DNA sequences in human brain and bone tumours. Dev Biol Stand 1998; 94: 23-32.
Martini F, Lazzarin L, Iaccheri L et al. Simian virus 40 footprints in normal human tissues, brain and bone tumors of different histotypes. Dev Biol Stand 1998; 94: 55-66.
Simian Virus 40 (SV40), a Possible Human Polyomavirus (Workshop Held at NIH). Emerging Infectious Diseases. 1997;3(2):245-247.
Carbone M, Rizzo P, Procopio A, et al. SV40-like sequences in human bone tumors. Aug 1, 1996;13(3):527-35.
Lednicky JA, Garcea RL, Bergsagel DJ, Butel JS. Natural simian virus 40 strains are present in human choroid plexus and ependymoma tumors. Oct 1, 1995;212(2):710-7.
Strebel PM, Ion-Nedelcu N, Baughman AL. Intramuscular injections within 30 days of immunization with oral poliovirus vaccine--a risk factor for vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis. N Engl J Med. Feb 23, 1995;332(8):500-6.
Vaccine Safety Committee, Institute of Medicine. Polio Vaccines. Adverse Events Associated with Childhood vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality. Washington, D.C. National Academies Press 1994.
Wyatt HV Injections and poliomyelitis: what are the risks of vaccine associated paralysis? Dev Biol Stand. 1986;65:123-6.
Ratner H et al. The Present Status of Polio Vaccines Illinois Medical Journal 118, no 2, 3, pp 84-93; pp160-168 Edited from a Panel Discussion presented before the Section on Preventative Medicine and Public Health at the 120^th annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society in Chicago, May 26, 1960.
Tonsillectomy and Poliomyelitis Am J Public Health Nations Health. Aug. 1954; 44(8): 1065–1067.
Greenberg M, Abramson H, Cooper HM, Solomon HE. The relation between recent injections and paralytic poliomyelitis in children. Am J Public Health Nations Health. Feb 1952;42(2):142-52.
Siegel M, Greenberg M, Magee MC. Tonsillectomy and poliomyelitis. II. Frequency of bulbar paralysis, 1944-1949. J Pediatr.May 1951;38(5):548-58.
Horstmann DM. Acute poliomyelitis relation of physical activity at the time of onset to the course of the disease. J Am Med Assoc. Jan 28, 1950;142(4):236-41.
KLENNER FR. The treatment of poliomyelitis and other virus diseases with vitamin C. South Med Surg. Jul. 1949;111(7):209-14.
State Department of Public Health. INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN VERMONT 1894-1922 The Vermont Printing Company Brattleboro, VT; 1924.
Manning JVV. The Correlation of epidemic paralysis in animal and man The Medical Times May 1912 p134-137.

Selected Books

Maready F The moth in the iron lung: a biography of polio. United States: Feels Like Fire.2018
Humphries S Bystrianyk R Dissolving illusions: disease, vaccines and the forgotten history. United States: CreateSpace, 2015
Oshinsky, DM. Polio: an American Story. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bookchin D, Schumacher J The Virus and the Vaccine – The True Story Of A Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the millions of Americans Exposed. Martin’s Press, 2004
Paul, JR. A History of Poliomyelitis. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1971

IMPORTANT NOTE: NVIC encourages you to become fully informed about Polio and the Polio vaccine by reading all sections in the Table of Contents , which contain many links and resources such as the manufacturer product information inserts, and to speak with one or more trusted health care professionals before making a vaccination decision for yourself or your child. This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice.