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ROSENOW PREDICTION OF RESURGENCE OF POLIO, AND THERAPY
Rosenow, E.C., Further immunological and clinical studies on
importance of neurotropic streptococcus in etiology of
epidemic poliomyelitis and its relation to natural virus, J.
Nerv. and Ment. dis. 120: 196-206, Sept.-Oct. 1954, 204:
"... it is suggested that the administration of the poliomyelitis
streptococcal thermal antibody used with favorable results in the
treatment of acute epidemic poliomyelitis be extended to persons
having severe paralytic poliomyelitis long after onset and who
according to the cutaneous tests have antigen in excessive titer
and, according to cutaneous and agglutinative tests, have
antibody in deficient titer."
As Dr. Rosenow had predicted, P. Elmer-Dewitt [Time, March 28,
1994, 54-55] recently discussed "post-polio syndrome", or "acute
paralytic poliomyelitis sequelae", noting that "Doctors aren't
certain what causes it or how best to treat it .... Before the end
of the decade, by one estimate, postpolio syndrome will strike 40%
to 50% of the polio survivors ... . What can be done to help the
postpolio sufferers? Not much, unfortunately. There are only
experimental treatments. A steroid called prednisone, usually used
to treat immune-system diseases like MS, seems to help in postpolio
as well, reducing fatigue and increasing endurance. ..."
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