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    Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened...
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    prevented by the polio vaccine, with multiple doses required for lifelong protection. There are two broad types of polio vaccine; an injected vaccine using inactivated...
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  • The oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis is a now-discredited hypothesis that the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee...
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    There are two kinds of polio vaccine—oral polio vaccine (OPV), which uses weakened poliovirus, and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is injected...
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    Jonas Salk (category Polio)
    virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York...
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    of polio Healthcare in India Vaccination Polio Vaccine Pulse vaccination strategy Polio v/s Polio victims, documentary about the campaign "Polio Global...
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    The announcement of the polio vaccine's safety and effectiveness was on April 12, 1955, by Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, the monitor...
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    Albert Sabin (category Polio)
    Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72...
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    vaccines and toxoid vaccines. Types include: Viral: Injected polio vaccine (Salk vaccine) Hepatitis A vaccine Rabies vaccine Most influenza vaccines Tick-borne...
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    The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough)...
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