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Immunisation (Paralysis Statistics)

Volume 483: debated on Thursday 1 February 1951

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asked the Minister of Health whether any record exists of the number of cases of paralysis developing in the inoculated limb, one, two or three months after immunisation.

Details are available for 1950. In that year 46 cases of paralysis developing in the inoculated limb after immunisation were reported. Of these 35 occurred within one month, 10 in the second month and one in the third month after immunisation.