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Canadian Public Health Association

80-year-old quarantine poster offers perspective

Christopher Montanini

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The Londoner

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Print/online


According to the Canadian Public Health Association, the first known outbreak of polio in Canada happened in 1910 after the death of a young girl in Hamilton, not far from Dunnville. She had been misdiagnosed with rabies, a sign of the difficulties polio would cause patients and public health officials for the next 50 years.


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