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The first epidemiologic descriptions of the
disease were by Karl Oskar Medin in his doctoral thesis, describing
cerebrospinal meningitis, at the Karolinska Institute in 1880. In Stockholm,
Sweden again in 1905, Otto Ivar Wickman, pediatrician, found many
nonparalytic cases that contributed substancially to disease transmission.
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