{"id": 1015493, "name": "Polio deaths", "unit": "cases", "createdAt": "2025-03-14T10:57:54.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-01-21T12:04:36.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1910-2023", "datasetId": 6995, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "deaths", "catalogPath": "grapher/health/2025-03-14/polio_deaths/polio_deaths#deaths", "descriptionShort": "Reported deaths from acute polio in a given year. The reported figures include both [wild-](#dod:wild-poliovirus) and [vaccine-derived poliovirus](#dod:vaccine-derived-poliovirus) infections that occurred indigenously and as imported cases.", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "10393659066790859455", "metadataChecksum": "-8602709956837382171", "datasetName": "Long-run reported polio deaths in the United States", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-03-14", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "cases"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Vaccination"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Data on reported deaths from acute polio have been compiled from historical Public Health Reports for the United States and from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.", "Acute polio deaths are defined as deaths from an acute polio infection, and not post-polio syndrome.", "The first polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk, it was licensed and began to be administered in 1955.", "A second polio vaccine was created by Albert Sabin in 1960."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1910}, {"id": 1911}, {"id": 1913}, {"id": 1914}, {"id": 1915}, {"id": 1916}, {"id": 1917}, {"id": 1918}, {"id": 1919}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1921}, {"id": 1922}, {"id": 1923}, {"id": 1924}, {"id": 1925}, {"id": 1926}, {"id": 1927}, {"id": 1928}, {"id": 1929}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1931}, {"id": 1932}, {"id": 1933}, {"id": 1934}, {"id": 1935}, {"id": 1936}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1938}, {"id": 1939}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1942}, {"id": 1943}, {"id": 1944}, {"id": 1945}, {"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 3094, "title": "Historical polio deaths in the United States - Public Health Reports", "description": "Data on historical polio deaths in the United States, compiled from a selection of sources from the United States - Public Health Reports.\n\nSources for each year are as follows:\n\n* 1910-11: [Public Health Reports Vol. 27, No. 16 \u201cPoliomyelitis in the United States, 1910 and 1911\"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4567726?seq=4)\n\n* 1913: [Public Health Reports Vol. 29, No. 28 \u201cThe Notifiable Diseases: Their Prevalence by States during 1913\u201d](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4570998?seq=12)\n\n* 1914: [Public Health Reports Vol. 39, No. 36 \u201cThe Notifiable Diseases: Reported Prevalence during 1914 by States\u201d](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4572751?seq=7)\n\n* 1915-1937: [Public Health Reports Vol. 54, No. 21 \u201cPrevalence of Poliomyelitis in the United States in 1938\u201d](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4582892?seq=1)\n\n* 1938: [Public Health Reports Vol. 55, No. 10 \u201cNotifiable Diseases in the United States, 1938: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases\"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4583204?seq=1)\n\n* 1939: [Public Health Reports, Vol. 56, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1939: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1941)](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4583620)\n\n* 1940: [Public Health Reports, Vol. 57, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1940: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1942)](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4584013)\n\n* 1942-1947: [Public Health Reports Vol. 63, No. 13 - Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1947](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4586491)\n\n* 1948-1949: [Public Health Reports Vol. 67, No. 6 - Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1951](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4588131)", "producer": "Public Health Reports", "citationFull": "Public Health Reports Vol. 27, No. 16 \u201cPoliomyelitis in the United States, 1910 and 1911\"\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 29, No. 28 \u201cThe Notifiable Diseases: Their Prevalence by States during 1913\u201d\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 39, No. 36 \u201cThe Notifiable Diseases: Reported Prevalence during 1914 by States\u201d\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 54, No. 21 \u201cPrevalence of Poliomyelitis in the United States in 1938\u201d\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 55, No. 10 \u201cNotifiable Diseases in the United States, 1938: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases\"\n\nPublic Health Reports, Vol. 56, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1939: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1941)\n\nPublic Health Reports, Vol. 57, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1940: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1942)\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 63, No. 13 - Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1947\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 67, No. 6 - Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1951", "urlMain": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/4588131", "dateAccessed": "2025-03-12", "datePublished": "1942-02-13", "license": {"name": "Public domain"}}, {"id": 10865, "title": "Historical polio deaths in the United States - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention", "description": "Data on historical polio deaths in the United States, compiled from a selection of sources from the US CDC.\n\nSources for each year are as follows:\n\n* 1950-1959: [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Annual Supplement Summary 1993 Vol. 9, No. 53 by the Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare.](https://www.globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/6303)\n\n* 1960-1967: [Reported Incidence of Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1970. Morbidity and Mortality Vol. 19, No. 53 (1971)](https://www.jstor.org/stable/44323897?read-now=1&seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents)\n\n* 1968-1978: [Compressed Mortality, 1968-1978 - CDC WONDER (ICD-8)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html)\n\n* 1979-1998: [Compressed Mortality, 1979-1998 - CDC WONDER (ICD-9)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html)\n\n* 1999-2020: [Underlying Cause of Death, 1999-2020 - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html)\n\n* 2018-2023: [Underlying Cause of Death by Single-Race Categories - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/deaths-by-underlying-cause.html)", "producer": "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention", "citationFull": "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Annual Supplement Summary 1993 Vol. 9, No. 53 by the Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare.\n\nReported Incidence of Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1970. Morbidity and Mortality Vol. 19, No. 53 (1971)\n\nCompressed Mortality, 1968-1978 - CDC WONDER (ICD-8)\n\nCompressed Mortality, 1979-1998 - CDC WONDER (ICD-9)\n\nUnderlying Cause of Death, 1999-2020 - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)\n\nUnderlying Cause of Death by Single-Race Categories - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)", "urlMain": "https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html", "dateAccessed": "2025-03-14", "datePublished": "2023", "license": {"name": "Public domain"}}]}