Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened...

by the polio vaccine, with multiple doses required for lifelong protection. There are two broad types of polio vaccine; an injected polio vaccine (IPV)...

There are two kinds of polio vaccine—oral polio vaccine (OPV), which uses weakened poliovirus, and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which is injected...

The oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis is a now-discredited hypothesis that the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee...

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...

revolutionizing medical philanthropy. Although the development of two polio vaccines has eliminated wild poliomyelitis in all but two countries (Afghanistan...

vaccines and toxoid vaccines. Types include: Viral: Injected polio vaccine (Salk vaccine) Hepatitis A vaccine Rabies vaccine Most influenza vaccines Tick-borne...

countries, where polio vaccine is given separately. By 2013, pentavalent vaccines accounted for 100% of the DTP-containing vaccines procured by UNICEF...

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...

diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that licensed vaccines are currently available...